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.
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.