There's only one drive offered: a 256GB Apple branded drive for $500 in lieu of your internal hard drive. The SSD isn't available on the $1199 iMac. While my review system didn't come with a SSD, Apple tells me that the 2011 iMacs use the same SSDs that the 2010 iMacs offered as an option (apparently a Toshiba based SSD - confirmed it's the same Toshiba SSD used in the 2011 MacBook Pro). This philosophy extends to Apple's take on SSDs as well. With less than 3% of the cost of the high end 27-inch iMac being devoted to the hard drive it's clear that Apple doesn't view storage as anything other than a commodity. Retail drive cost is around $65 and the cost to Apple is likely even lower than that as an OEM ordering in bulk.
The drives are all 7200RPM and come from either Seagate or Western Digital. By today's standards 1TB isn't anything to be excited about, particularly if you're storing a lot of music, photos and videos. With the exception of the entry level iMac which comes with a 500GB drive, the remaining iMacs ship with a 1TB hard drive. Apple doesn't just use the extra chassis volume in the iMac for heat dissipation, the system also comes equipped with a single 3.5" hard drive rather than the smaller 2.5" drives you find in notebooks.
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