- Industry standard 2.5-inch form factor supports 2.5-inch drive bays on selected System x, IBM iDataPlex, IBM BladeCenter and IBM Flex System servers
- Combine a cache of NAND flash and conventional media to accelerate hard disk drive performance
- Enable higher IO performance while leverage the capacity and cost of spinning media for primary storage
- Bring transparent enhanced performance to data with high locality (hot data)
- Transparently cache data at I/O block level
- Improve performance of server internal storage in lower cost configurations, without a need to utilize SSDs and storage tiering
The IBM SAS 2.5-inch hybrid hard disk drive (HDD) for IBM System x provides cost-effective performance and density by combining a cache of NAND flash and conventional HDD media in a single industry-standard small form factor (SFF) drive. This hybrid drive accelerates HDD performance for small and medium business and distributed large enterprise application environments, enabling higher I/O performance for most frequently used data while leveraging the capacity and cost of spinning media for primary storage.