8NW1H: Dell 400GB 6Gbps SAS 2.5in SFF SSD (Pliant LB406S)

The Dell 8NW1H is a 400GB 6Gb/s SAS solid-state drive in a 2.5 inch small form factor (SFF), drive model LB406S.

Specifications: part number 8NW1H (also searched as 08NW1H) · drive model LB406S · 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 8NW1H drive is compatible with the Dell EMC PowerVault MD34XX/38XX Series.

Compatibility and specifications

8NW1H is the SanDisk (Pliant) Lightning LB406S, the 400 GB model of SanDisk's Lightning Write-Intensive SAS SSDs: SLC flash on a dual-port 6Gb/s SAS interface, with capacitor-backed cache, aimed at a 50/50 read/write mix such as database logging. SanDisk rates it at up to 450/250 MB/s sequential read/write, 118,000 random read IOPS and 33,000 IOPS on 4 KB 50/50 random writes; the mixed-use LB406M (8C38W) is rated lower at 385/220 MB/s sequential and 100,000 random read IOPS. Dell lists 8NW1H with firmware D339 in the MD34XX/38XX (Rev. A25) and MD32XX/36XX (Rev. A24) matrices and in the MD3060e enclosure matrix; TPWNJ is the 200 GB LB206S from the same write-intensive line.

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