The Seagate ST31000424SS is a 1 TB, 3.5-inch enterprise hard drive from the Constellation ES family designed for server and data-center workloads. It operates at 7200 RPM, uses a SAS 6 Gb/s interface, and includes 16 MB of cache to help improve transfer performance in 3.5-inch SAS bays. In IBM System X deployments this drive is cross-referenced by IBM part number 42D0781, making it a common upgrade for IBM System X servers and other enterprise storage configurations.
