New solid state drives are now available on select Blade servers, offering higher reliability, durability & power savings than conventional hard disk drives. By decreasing potential points of failure from mechanical drive parts within your blade server, you can gain more uptime & protect your data. IBM is offering next-generation local storage today with new SATA-based solid state drives. Offering more than double the reliability of conventional hard drives these slim drives are available either in a single or double configuration for additional RAIDed data security. Ideal for local OS booting, solid state drives are a viable alternative to mechanical hard drives for simple applications or an important next step toward external shared storage with end-to-end reliability.