DS4000 EXP810 Storage Expansion Unit

The DS4000 EXP810 is the latest disk drive enclosure in the DS4000 Series of products. This 3U enclosure has 4 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces, and supports up to 16 disk drives.

The 4 Gbps ready IBM System Storage EXP810 Storage Expansion Unit machine type (1812-81A) offers a new 16-bay disk enclosure for attachment to selected DS4000 Midrange Disk Systems, with up to 4.8 terabytes (TB) physical capacity per expansion unit using sixteen 300 GB disk drives. The EXP810 Storage Expansion Unit is designed to accommodate the new optional 2 Gbps Fibre Channel Enhanced Disk Drive Modules (E-DDM), as well as intermix of future optional 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Enhanced Disk Drive Modules (E-DDM), all within the same enclosure. Contains redundant (AC) power and cooling modules, and ESM interfaces. The DS4000 EXP810 is available in a 19-inch rack mount package.