IBM Gen2 Simple-swap - hard drive - 500 GB - SAS 6Gb/s - (CRU) - Tier 1

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.