Do you need to accelerate the performance of your read intensive applications? HPE 12Gb SAS Read Intensive (RI) Solid State Drives (SSDs) deliver enterprise features at an affordable price for applications requiring high random read IOPS performance. SAS RI SSDs transfer data at full duplex (bidirectional) allowing greater I/O bandwidth to alleviate bottlenecks at twice the 6Gb interface of SATA drives. HPE 12Gb SAS RI SSDs are best suited for mission-critical enterprise applications requiring a strong blend of high read IOPS and low latency for workloads high in reads such as read caching, social media, web servers and boot/swap. HPE 12Gb Value SAS RI SSDs offer a significant performance boost over SATA SSDs with roughly twice the read IOPS and are lower in cost than traditional SAS SSD drives. HPE 12Gb Value SAS is a single-ported version of enterprise SAS, providing slightly reduced performance in exchange for being price competitive to enterprise SATA SSDs.