IBM System Storage DCS9900

Highlights

• New – 2TeraByte (TB) Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk drive (7200 revolutions per minute (rpm))
• New 600GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive (15000rpm)
• Support for SAS/SATA intermix in the same enclosure
• Support for 3-enclosure configuration
• High-performance sequential I/O: Reads and writes at up to 5.9GigaBytes per second (GBps) with no Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) 6 write penalty
• Dense packaging and capacity: Up to 1.2PetaByte (PB) in a single rack and 2.4PB in just two floor tiles
• High availability: Data access assured independent of disk, enclosure or controller failures
• Extreme reliability: Data transfer rates sustained independent of disk or enclosure failures, simultaneous detection and correction of SATA silent data-corruption errors and RAID 6 reliability.

High-performance storage for streaming I/O applications

The IBM System Storage DCS9900 Storage System is designed for applications with high-performance streaming data requirements served by Deep Computing systems, IBM System p High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and System x 1350 Linux® Cluster systems.

Applications such as those in HPC, rich media, life sciences and government research require high-performance, reliable access to streaming data and extreme capacity and density to simplify management and reduce cost. Examples of such applications include weather forecasting, seismic processing, reservoir modelling, high definition (HD) creation and distribution, proteomics, structural analysis, fluid dynamics and gene sequencing. With its parallel storage solution architecture the DCS9900 is specifically designed to address those needs.