High capacity and performance for demanding server environments
IBM Ultrastar 73LZX hard disk drive
Highlights
Rotational speeds of 10,000 RPM and average seek times as low as 4.9 ms help boost performance.
Capacities including 73, 36, 18, and 9 GB provide outstanding configuration flexibility.
A new suspension feature and Drive Fitness Test combine with load/unload technology and glass substrate disks to enhance reliability and robustness, and prolong drive lifetime.
Advanced drive technology
The fifth generation of the award-winning IBM Ultrastar* 10,000 RPM disk drive family, IBM Ultrastar 73LZX drives offer proven quality and superior performance. These drives feature more powerful processors and read/write channels, a new feed-forward servo control that improves seek and settle time, and better suspension dynamics that enable greater servo bandwidth, faster speeds, and improved mechanical stability.
To achieve maximum I/O performance, the drives combine fast seek times, large 4 MB multisegmented buffers, a sophisticated command queuing system, hardware automation, and industryleading sustained data rates. They also employ fifth-generation giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology to double areal density (up to13.1 Gbits/sq.in.) and performance.In addition, highly efficient No-ID* sector formatting enables more data to be stored per disk.
Reliability leadership
Drive Fitness Test enables drive self-testing and analysis—helping to prevent returned drives.To help ensure data protection, IBM Ultrastar drives include IBM-exclusive reporting tools, such as Predictive Failure Analysis* (to signal potential drive problems) and Drive-TIP* (to monitor drives and avoid malfunctions).
Load/unload technology and glass substrate disks also increase reliability by providing a more robust solution at high rotational speeds.
Outstanding environmentals
IBM Ultrastar drives provide extremely quiet operation. In addition, tri-laminate drive covers reduce both idle and seek acoustics while an improved spindle motor driver enables smoother commutation.Moreover,a new electronic design enables 20 percent lower power requirements than previous IBM 10,000 RPM drives to help reduce costs.
Support for advanced applications and interfaces
IBM Ultrastar drives provide high data throughput for data-intensive applications and offer a choice of 1 and 2 Gbit Fibre Channel and Ultra160 SCSI (backward-compatible) interfaces.
IBM Ultrastar 73LZX 3.5-inch 73.4 GB high-performance disk drive
IBM Ultrastar 73LZX 3.5-inch 73.4, 36.7, 18.3, and 9.1GB disk drives
Configuration |
Interface |
Ultra160 SCSI |
FC-AL-2 |
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Formatted capacity (512 bytes) |
73.4/36.7/18.3/9.1 |
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Sector size (in bytes) |
512-528 (variable, 2-byte inc.) |
512-528 (8-byte inc.) |
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Recording zones |
17 |
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Data heads |
12/6/3/2 |
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Disks |
6/3/2/1 |
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Areal density (maximum) |
13,110 Mbits/sq. in. |
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Recording density (maximum) |
480,000 BPI |
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Track density |
27,312 TPI |
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Performance |
Data buffer |
4096 KB1 |
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Rotational speed |
10,000RPM |
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Latency (average) |
3.00 ms |
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Media transfer rate |
373-690 Mbits/sec |
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Interface transfer rate |
160 MB/sec |
200/400 MB/sec |
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Sustained data rate |
29.2-57.0 MB/sec |
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Seek time |
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Average |
4.9 ms |
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Track to track |
0.5 ms |
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Full track |
10.5 ms |
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Reliability |
Error rate (nonrecoverable) |
1in10E14 bits read |
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Start/stop cycles |
50,000 cycles |
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Power |
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Requirement |
+5VDC (+-5%),+12VDC (+-5%) |
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Dissipation (typical) |
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Startup (maximum peak) |
0.9 A (5V), 2.4 A (12 V) |
1.3 A (5V), 2.4 A (12 V) |
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Idle |
9.5/7.4/6.7/5.6 W |
11.5/9.4/8.7/8.7 W |
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Power consumption efficiency index |
0.00013,0.00021 |
0.00016,0.00026, |
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0.00037,0.00062W/MB |
0.00048,0.00096W/MB |
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Dimensions |
Height |
25.4(+-0.4)mm |
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Width |
101.6(+-0.4) mm |
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Depth |
146.0 (+-0.6) mm |
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Weight(maximum) |
800g |
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Acoustics |
Idle |
3.7/3.4/3.4/3.4 Bel |
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Operating |
4.5/4.5/4.5/4.5 Bel |
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Environmentalcharacteristics |
Operating |
Nonoperating |
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Ambient temperature |
5° to 55° C |
-40° to 65° C |
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Relative humidity (noncondensing) |
8% to 90% |
5% to 95% |
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Maximumwetbulb(noncondensing) |
29.4°C |
35.0° C |
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Shock (half sine wave) |
10 G (11ms) / 45 G (2 ms) |
75 G (11ms) / 225 G (2 ms) 73 G; 300 G (2 ms) 36,18, 9 GB |
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Random vibration (RMS) |
0.67 G (horiz.) / 0.56 G (vert.) |
1.04 G |
Models |
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Ultra160 SCSI |
FC-AL-2 |
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IC35L009UWD210,IC35L009UCD210, |
IC35L009F2D210, |
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IC35L018UWD210,IC35L018UCD210, |
IC35L018F2D210, |
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IC35L036UWD210,IC35L036UCD210, |
IC35L036F2D210, |
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IC35L073UWD210,IC35L073UCD210 |
IC35L073XF2D210 |
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1Upper 512 KB used for firmware.
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