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.
IBM disk storage systems provide storage efficiency solutions such as Real-time Compressionâ¢, automated tiering, virtualization, and thin provisioning. IBM disk storage works perfect together in combination with flash storage as a hybrid storage solution, by increasing efficiency, speed and lower IT cost. These disk storage solutions increase the data storage landscape for organizations of all sizes to boost system performance.
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.