Storage Drives

New IBM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM and IBM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA Multi-Burner Drive for System x and BladeCenter.

These new drives are positioned at the top of our SATA line based on increased performance and capacity. They allow you to choose from a wider range of drives for your IBM System x or BladeCenter system.

The newest additions to the IBM System x family of SAS Hard drive (HDDs) and Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) drives offer higher performance options and provide a wider selection of choices to satisfy a wide range of applications. These new drives are positioned at the top of the IBM SAS hard drive line.

The Half-High LTO Generation 6 (LTO6) SAS Tape Drive is a high-performance, high-capacity data-storage device that is designed to back up and restore open-systems applications. It offers native storage capacity of 2.5 TB per cartridge (6.2 TB at 2.5:1 compression) and a maximum native data transfer rate of up to 160 Mbps (400 Mbps compressed). This enterprise data protection offering has a 5.25" half-height internal form factor for integration into System x tower servers.

The ThinkSystem Internal Half High LTO Generation 8 (LTO8) SAS Tape Drive is a high-performance, high-capacity data-storage device that is designed to back up and restore open-systems applications. It offers native storage capacity of 12 TB per cartridge (30 TB at 2.5:1 compression) and a maximum native data transfer rate of up to 300 MBps (500 MBps compressed). This enterprise data protection offering has a 5.25" half-height internal form factor for integration into ThinkSystem servers.