4TB NL SAS and 2TB/4TB NL SAS Encrypted HDDs

4TB 7.2K 6Gb NL SAS 3.5-inch HS HDD (49Y6205) and 4TB 7.2K 6Gb NL SAS 3.5-inch G2HS HDD (49Y6210) offered by IBM Corp.:

• Are RoHS compliant
• Meet client requirements for large capacities and increased speeds in larger form factor
• Offer speeds up to 7,200 rpm to help optimize performance
• Provide reliability to enable operation in RAID environments without compromising application performance or availability

You can increase your storage and data management when you install these new SAS HDDs in your IBM System x or BladeCenter S configurations.

2TB 7,200 rpm 6Gb SAS 3.5-inch G2HS SED (00W1533) and 4TB 7,200 rpm 6Gb SAS 3.5-inch G2HS SED (00W1543)

New self-encrypting drives (SEDs) add high-capacity offerings to the System x family.

These SEDs are designed to reduce the vulnerability of data at rest to potentially costly exposures of proprietary data resulting from HDDs being stolen, misplaced, or even improperly disposed.

For small and medium or distributed large enterprise businesses, 2TB and 4TB SAS 3.5-inch HS SEDs provide cost-effective data security with AES 128 disk encryption. These SED offerings also provide 6Gbs hot-swap SAS capability for high-performance and HA System x environment. The SED functionality and 6Gb SAS performance of these new drives are enabled when used with new IBM 6 Gbps System x servers and internal ServeRAID controllers with Advance Feature Keys for SED support.

4TB HDD, 2TB and 4TB SED performance characteristics:

• Formatted capacity of 2TB
• Formatted capacity of 4TB
• Drive-to-host interface that supports up to 6.0 Gbps burst rate
• Drive media to buffer interface that supports sustained interface data transfers of up to 151Mb/s average on the 2TB drive and the 4TB drive
• Spindle speed of 7,200 rpm
• Hot-swap capability
• SAS interface
• Reliability
• SAS compliance enables these HDDs and SEDs to connect directly to selected System x systems.
• S.M.A.R.T. technology allows software utilities to alert of certain impending drive failures so replacements can be made before a problem occurs.
• Testing through the ServerProven program instills confidence that the storage subsystem is compatible and will function reliably.
• One-year, limited warranty1 is included with the HDDs and SEDs.

Key prerequisites:
IBM System x system with SAS capability.

Planned availability date:
May 28, 2013