Enterprise Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives offer the best combination of performance while providing the highest data integrity for server and external storage solutions. The 6 Gbps SAS interface provides double the data transfer rates over the previous generation and provide the scalability required by data centers worldwide.SAS has become the hard drive interface of choice for enterprise-based storage solutions today. With full duplex, bidirectional I/O, these hard drives offer an average of 135 percent increased performance over SATA-based solutions and puts enterprise-class functionality within financial reach of businesses of all sizes.
High performance and reliability - these attributes define hard disk drives from IBM - a winning data storage solution. Designed specifically to meet the needs of your advanced, data-intensive applications, IBM hard disk drives provide users with a wide range of capacities and interfaces for nearly every data-intensive application.
Next-generation 10K hard disk drive features are now available for entry and midrange Storage systems. For DS3500 systems, new Storage Manager version 10.86 and Controller FirmWare level (CFW) version 7.86 are available and include a new HDD functionality, T10 Protection Information (T10 PI). These new drives are T10 PI capable, and the new Storage Manager and CFW enable T10 PI on other DS3500 drive options previously announced without that capability.
The IBM 500 GB 7.2K rpm NL SATA 2.5-inch SFF Slim-HS HDDs provide 2.5-inch form factor options that can be used as hot-swap or non-hot-swap drives. The addition of the 500 GB 7.2K rpm offering to the System x and BladeCenter blade family of 2.5-inch SAS HDDs makes it the highest-capacity SFF options.