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IBM Canada Ltd. Hardware Announcement
A14-0780, dated September 9, 2014
IBM Canada Ltd. Hardware Announcement A14-0780 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation
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New IBM System x 2.5-inch 1.8 TB 10K 12 Gbps and
6 Gbps SAS HDDs and SEDs, 600 GB, 900 GB, and 1.2
TB 10K 12 Gbps SAS 512e HDDs and SEDs, and 300 GB
and 600 GB 15K 12 Gbps SAS 512e HDDs, SEDs, and
hybrids offer optimised storage and data management
Table of contents
2 Overview 5 Product number
3 Key prerequisites 7 Publications
3 Planned availability date 8 Technical information
4 Description 12 Terms and conditions
5 Product positioning 13 Prices
At a glance
IBM® 300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm 12
Gbps and 6 Gbps 2.5-inch hot-swap and simple-swap SAS hard disk drives (HDDs),
hybrid drives, and self-encrypting drives (SEDs) can provide multiple options to
meet storage performance and capacity requirements while offering various features
to address more specific needs.
These new drives are 512 emulation (512e), a new drive technology to increase
drive capacity while maintaining data integrity. All SAS drives are RoHS compliant.
HDD, SED, and hybrid drive features include:
10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm HDDs deliver SAS HDD reliability and largest
capacity performance in the IBM HDD family.
SAS drive-to-host interface supports up to 12.0 Gbps burst rate, which can be
achieved when the drive is used on a System x® server with 12 Gbps devices
and infrastructure.
2.5-inch, slim-line form factor optimizes storage capacity.
Software utilities allow for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
(S.M.A.R.T.) to alert you of certain impending drive failures so that replacements
can be made.
Hot-swap and simple-swap versions of the IBM SAS 2.5-inch HDDs and hybrid
drives are available. SEDs are available in hot-swap versions.
One-year warranty is included.
For optimal performance with 512e drives, the host system software stack
must be 512e aware. For more information, reference IBM's Advanced Format
Redpaper
TM
at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5119.html
Hybrid drive features include:
Formatted capacity of 300,000 MB or 600,000 MB
32,000 MB (32 GB) NAND flash to cache "hot data"
Spindle speed up to 15,000 rpm
Fine-tuning of storage tiering by caching at the I/O level

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