• 1.8-inch, slim-line form factor that fits into a conventional disk drive bay
• Energy saving with as little as 2.3-watt power consumption per drive
• S.M.A.R.T. Technology, which, through the use of software utilities, can alert you

of certain impending drive failures

• One-year limited warranty

Overview

The new IBM 50 GB and 200 GB SATA 1.8-inch MLC SSDs bring solid state high

performance, reliability, and low-power capabilities to BladeCenter and System x

storage. The new 50 GB and 200 GB SSD drives will each be available as a single

1.8-inch mulitlevel cell (MLC) drive.

Key features and benefits include:

• Low power requirements (2.3 watts per drive) help you better manage the power

envelope of the datacenter.

• Uptime is up to three times that of conventional hard drives without

compromising application performance or availability.

• Durability helps withstand challenging environmental conditions.
• These drives are ideal for local boot usage and web serving applications, and in

environments where application data is accessed in external storage.

Performance

50 GB performance characteristics include:

• Formatted capacity: Up to 50,000 MB
• Drive to host interface that supports 3.0 Gb/s burst rate