8C38W: Dell 400GB 6Gbps SAS 2.5in SFF SSD (Pliant LB406M)

The Dell 8C38W is a 400GB 6Gb/s SAS solid-state drive in a 2.5 inch small form factor (SFF), drive model LB406M.

Specifications: part number 8C38W (also searched as 08C38W) · drive model LB406M · brand Dell · capacity 400GB · interface 6Gb/s SAS · size 2.5 inch SFF · type SSD.

This PN provides one 2.5 inch Small Form Factor (SFF) 400GB Hot Swappable Serial Attached SCSI (SAS 2) 6Gbps SSD (Solid State Drive)

This Dell 8C38W drive is compatible with the Dell EMC PowerVault MD34XX/38XX Series.

Compatibility and specifications

8C38W is the SanDisk (Pliant) Lightning LB406M, the 400 GB model of SanDisk's Lightning Mixed-Use SAS SSDs: SLC flash, a dual-port 6Gb/s SAS interface and capacitor-backed cache, aimed at workloads with a 70/30 read/write mix. SanDisk rates it at up to 385/220 MB/s sequential read/write, 100,000 random read IOPS and 11,000 IOPS on 4 KB 70/30 random writes, with 2 million hours MTBF. Dell lists 8C38W with firmware D339 in the MD34XX/38XX (Rev. A25) and MD32XX/36XX (Rev. A24) matrices and in the MD3060e enclosure matrix, which allows up to 25 SSDs per enclosure and 5 per drawer; 8NW1H is the 400 GB write-intensive LB406S, and D3K4J the read-intensive LB406R.

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