Seagate Nytro XP6302 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide, Rev. E
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Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1
Overview
This manual describes the functional, mechanical, and interface specifications for the Seagate® Nytro® XP6302 Series
Flash Accelerator Cards. The Nytro XP6302 card is a block storage device. The card presents itself to the operating
system through a Fusion-MPT™ interface as a single drive that requires minimal user configuration. You can use this
card for either nonpersistent (for example, cache) or persistent (for example, database files) data.
The Nytro XP6302 card has a PCI Express® (PCIe®) interface that complies with the PCI Express Specification 3.0. The
functionality of the Nytro XP6302 card comes from a SAS2308 I/O controller with Seagate Nytro firmware that runs on
the internal processor.
The following table shows the characteristics of the Nytro XP6302 card models:
1.2
Features
This section lists the features of the Nytro XP6302 cards.
Proven enterprise firmware stack
Flash ROM for storing the BIOS and firmware
Best-in-class read and write performance
Average latency of less than 200
μ
s
Low host burden – No static CPU and memory overhead
Support for Windows®, Linux®, VMware®, and FreeBSD® operating systems
Bootable
PCIe 3.0 x8
Half height and half length
PCIe standard low-profile bracket attached to card (full-height bracket ships in the box)
LEDs for drive life and drive status
RAISE™ – High reliability with block-level, page-level, and die-level failure protection
Table 1 Seagate Nytro XP6302 Card Characteristics Summary
Device Name
Model Name
Part Number
Connector
Capacity
Flash
Controller
NAND Type
Card Style
Controller
Nytro XP6302
XP6302-8B4096
ST3500KN0012
X8 PCIe 3.0
4 TB
SF2582
Consumer
Multi-Level Cell
(cMLC)
Half Height, Half
Length (HHHL)
SAS2308
Nytro XP6302
XP6302-8B2048
ST1750KN0012
X8 PCIe 3.0
2 TB
SF2582
Enterprise
Multi-Level Cell
(eMLC)
HHHL
SAS2308
Nytro XP6302
XP6302-8B1536
ST1300KN0012
X8 PCIe 3.0
1.5 TB
SF2582
eMLC
HHHL
SAS2308
