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IBM Provides 2TB SATA HDD
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Fri, January 8th, 2010
For selected System x
The addition of 2 TB HDD offerings by IBM Corp. to the System x family of 3.5-inch SATA drives offers the highest performance options and provides a wider selection of choices to satisfy a wide range of applications. These new drives are positioned at the top of our SATA HDD line.
These two 2 TB SATA NL HDDs provide 3.5-inch form factor options that are available as hot-swap or simple-swap configurations.
Key features and benefits include:
Planned availability date: January 20, 2010
These two 2 TB SATA NL HDDs provide 3.5-inch form factor options that are available as hot-swap or simple-swap configurations.
Key features and benefits include:
- Up to 7,200 rpm speed to help optimize performance
- Outstanding reliability that enables operation in RAID environments without compromising application performance or availability
- Formatted capacity of 2,000,000 MB
- Drive to host interface that supports up to 3.0 Gb/s burst rate
- Drive media to buffer interface that supports sustained interface data transfers of up to 112 MB/s average
- Spindle speed of 7,200 rpm
- Average latency of 4.17 ms
- Hot-swap or simple-swap capability
- SAS interface with dual port option
- SAS compliance enables these HDDs to connect directly into System x systems.
- S.M.A.R.T Technology allows software utilities to alert you of certain impending drive failures so replacements can be made before a problem occurs.
- Rigorous testing through the ServerProven program instills confidence that your storage subsystem is compatible and will function reliably.
- The HDDs come with a one-year, limited warranty.
Planned availability date: January 20, 2010
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