IBM heeft een press release online gezet over de Ultrastar 36Z15, een hardeschijf die 15.000 rondjes per minuut kan draaien. De hardeschijf zal dit kwartaal beschikbaar komen in een 18GB en een 36GB smaak. Volgens IBM is de Ultrastar 36Z15 ongeveer 25 procent sneller dan bestaande 15.000rpm schijven (lees: Seagate's Cheetah) en dat is altijd fijn voor servers met veel disk activiteit :
In addition to a new capacity point and shorter latency, the new Ultrastar achieves a media transfer rate of up to 647 megabits a second and seek time as low as 3.4 milliseconds. Faster seek times and data transfer rates speed information retrieval and contribute to the overall performance of the drive.
"The new Ultrastar drives will help revolutionize the future landscape of e-commerce and Web-hosting," said Bill Healy, vice president, IBM Storage Technology Division. "The drives were designed to respond to today’s performance needs -- from customers interfacing with Internet applications to partners accessing an Extranet or a proprietary company Intranet. Data availability is at the core of each business process."
The Ultrastar 36Z15 allows for greater speed and improved execution with online transaction processing, online analytical processing, business-to-business transaction, business-to-consumer operation, customer resource management and high-performance database applications.
On industry standard benchmarks, Ultrastar 36Z15 performs up to 25 percent faster than existing 15K RPM drives and up to 50 percent faster than currently available 10K RPM drives.