IBM Ultrastar 36LP DPSS-336950
A mammoth 36.9 GB performer, the Ultrastar 36LP proved to be an awesome product. With an Ultra160 SCSI interface, a disk rotational speed of 7,200 RPM and a cache size of 4 MB, the drive features Active damping, load/unload technology, and glass substrate disks. It also incorporates GMR advanced head technology, No-ID sector formatting and PRML digital data channel. A drive index of 20838, High End Disk Winmark score of 16.78 MBps, beginning transfer rate of 29.28 MBps, an end transfer rate of 18.69 MBps, 103.92 I/Os per second, and 9.62 ms average I/O response time was quite impressive and resulted in an overall score of 73.13. At a cost per MB of Rs 1.46, the Ultrastar 36LP proves to be a great combination of price and performance for a wide range of workstations, LAN and enterprise servers.