This allows users to monitor the temperature of the drive so it can be adjusted if the system environment gets too hot. With this Ultrastar product family introduction, IBM has improved the acoustics on its newest 10,020 RPM server drives making them the quietest IBM server drives yet. Also, these new offerings have large buffers of up to 4 MB, contributing to their high performance. Availability IBM's new Ultrastar drives are shipping in limited quantities to customers worldwide now. Avid Technology, Inc., The CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division of Data General Corporation, Euphonix, Eurologic, IBM Personal Systems Group, and several others plan to offer one or more of these new drives in their servers and data storage solutions.
Rigorous testing shows it is the fastest drive shipping at sequential reads.
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