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Abstract
Lenovo offers a broad range of hard disk drives (HDD) ranging from entry level to industry leading capacity points. Lenovo HDDs are optimized to deliver maximum performance on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and all HDDs undergo stringent compatibility and reliability testing to ensure best performance in 24x7 operational environments. Lenovo HDDs are available in two different interfaces – SAS and SATA, and in a variety of capacity points of up to 18TB.
Change History
Changes in the August 27, 2024 update:
- Added the following 3.5-inch SAS drives
- ThinkSystem 3.5" 12TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD v2, 4XB7A93788
- ThinkSystem 3.5" 16TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD v2, 4XB7A93786
- ThinkSystem 3.5" 20TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD v2, 4XB7A93784
- Added the following 3.5-inch SATA drives
- ThinkSystem 3.5" 12TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD v2, 4XB7A93787
- ThinkSystem 3.5" 16TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD v2, 4XB7A93785
- ThinkSystem 3.5" 20TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD v2, 4XB7A93783
Overview
Lenovo offers a broad range of hard disk drives (HDD) ranging from entry-level drives to industry leading capacity and high-RPM offerings. Lenovo HDDs are optimized to deliver maximum performance on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and all HDDs undergo stringent compatibility and reliability testing to ensure best performance in 24x7 operational environments.
Lenovo HDDs are available with a variety of features:
- 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch form factors
- Hot-swap, simple-swap or non-hot-swap trays
- 12 Gbps or 6 Gbps interface speeds
- SAS, NL SAS or NL SATA protocols
- 15K, 10K or 7200 RPM rotational speeds
- Self-encrypting drives (SEDs)
Lenovo HDDs provide outstanding performance, high capacity and reliability.
- Outstanding performance for all mission critical applications
Enterprise HDDs with enhanced sequential and random read/write performance, designed for critical business applications
- Offering highest capacity HDDs from industry leaders
Lenovo offers a wide range of HDDs from storage industry leaders to ensure the best technology and highest capacity points are available to our customers
- Excellent reliability and performance in 24x7 operational environments
Lenovo uses comprehensive validation and quality control measures to ensure best reliability and performance for all application workloads under 24x7 operation
- Protect data with Self-Encrypting drives
Lenovo offers Self-encrypting drives to protect customer data against loss or theft as well as secure drive retirement, disposal, or repurposing
- Helium-filled drive assemblies for drives 12TB and larger
Helium provides a more stable environment and less turbulence and resistance to the flying heads. This enables a larger number of platters which results in larger storage capacity. The use of Helium also results in lower power consumption compared to air-filled drives.
Workload limit: All Enterprise 7200 RPM NL SAS and NL SATA drives have a workload limit of 550TB/year. 10K and 15K SAS drives do not have a workload limit.
SED drives: All drives 22TB or larger are SED drives even though "SED" is not listed in the name of the drive. The encryption functionality can be disabled if needed.
The following tables list the HDDs available for ThinkSystem servers. They are grouped as follows:
2.5-inch Hot Swap drives
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
2.5-inch VLH drive offerings
The drives in the following table are available from Lenovo under the Vendor Logo Hardware (VLH) program.
3.5-inch Hot Swap drives
3.5-inch 12Gb SAS HDDs
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
3.5-inch 6Gb SATA HDDs
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Simple Swap drives
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
- Support for client drives has special conditions of use. See Special Notice for Client drives for details
- Support for client drives has special conditions of use. See Special Notice for Client drives for details