Multi-Vendor SSD, 480 GB, SATA, 6G, read-intensive, SFF, 2.5'-SSD, 480 GB, SATA III (6Gb/s). Height: Proprietary. Maximum read speed: 515 MB/s, maximum write speed: 449 MB/s. This SSD accelerates performance and offers enterprise-class features at an affordable price. HPE SATA Read Intensive (RI) Solid State Drives (SSD) provide excellent performance characteristics for workloads with a high proportion of read operations such as boot/swap, web servers, and read caching. HPE SSDs have undergone a testing and qualification program exceeding 3.35 million hours, ensuring they are reliable and robust drives. The digitally signed firmware from HPE prevents unauthorized access to your data and ensures that the drive firmware comes from a trusted source. The HPE SmartSSD Wear Gauge can be used to monitor the SSD's lifespan, allowing you to determine if drives are at risk of failure. Businesses are generating increasing amounts of data daily, which raises the need for additional storage drives. This SSD offers ample space and high reliability. It is particularly suitable for external storage, backup, and archiving applications in intensive I/O server environments and can be quickly and easily integrated into your server system.