New solid state drives are now available on select Blade servers, offering higher reliability, durability and 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 and 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.