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IBM Debuts World's Highest Capacity Hard Drive

By Scott Bekker
10/15/1999

IBM today introduced the world's highest capacity hard drive, the Ultrastar 72ZX. The drive, which runs at 10,000 RPM, has 73 gigabytes of storage space, roughly the capacity of a floor of books at the New York Public Library. The drive is part of IBM's new family of high-capacity, high-speed server hard drives.

Included in the drive is a new IBM technology called Active Damping, which protects against temperature changes and vibration, both of which have significant effects on drive performance. The Ultrastar also supports both a 1-gigabyte and a 2-gigabyte fiber channel interface, further enhancing performance. In addition, the drive features enhanced interface support, including a version of the Ultra160 SCSI interface called Ultra160+, as well as standard server hard drive technologies including power save and standby modes; glass disk platters; the load/unload mechanism; giant magnetoresistive (GMR) recording heads; and Drive Temperature Indicator Processor technology, or Drive-TIP. The Ultrastar 72ZX will ship in the first quarter of 2000.

Contact IBM, (888) 426-5214, www.ibm.com.

About the Author

Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.

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