Entry level disk storage

The EXP3500 drive enclosures are 2U cabinet-mountable 6 Gbps enclosures designed to support a total of twelve 3.5-inch SAS drives (EXP3512) or twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS drives (EXP3524)—achieving up to a maximum raw capacity of 36 TB in a single enclosure. IBM’s legacy in best-of-breed development, in conjunction with next-generation 6 Gbps SAS drive technology, enables the EXP3500 expansion enclosures to deliver rack optimisation, power savings, reliability and performance.

• Cost Contact IBM
  
• Ease of use Hot-swappable components, redundant power supplies and ESMs
  
• Performance 4,000 MB/s, 40,000 IOPs (expanded to 96 15 K SAS drives)
  

The IBM System Storage DS3400 Express is a Fibre Channel (FC) host-based external storage system specifically designed for a wide range of organisations. With FC interface technology, next-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) back-end technology, SAS and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drive intermix support and DS3000 Storage Manager software, the DS3400 storage system provides businesses with robust, reliable, cost-effective FC networked storage. The enclosure addresses the top concerns of businesses managing increasing demand for capacity, data availability and consolidated management.

• Included management softwareDS3000 Storage Manager
  
• Physical storage capacity 7.2 TeraByte (TB) with 600 GB SAS drives within the first enclosure
  
  24.0 TB with 2.0 TB SATA drives within the first enclosure
  
  28.8 TB with expansion and 48 600 GB SAS drives
  
  96.0 TB with expansion and 48 2.0 TB within the first enclosure

IBM has combined best-of-breed development with leading host interface and drive technology in the IBM System Storage DS3500 Express. With next-generation 6 Gbps SAS back-end and host technology, you have a seamless path to consolidated and efficient storage—improving performance, flexibility, scalability, data security and ultra-low power consumption—while not sacrificing simplicity, affordability, or availability.

• CostThe DS3500 storage system is a cost-effective complement to meet the storage needs of many applications as well as a component of an overall low-cost configuration with System x server, BladeCenter and Power Systems.
  
• Ease of useIBM DS Storage Manager software is the perfect combination of robustness and ease of use that does not sacrifice control.
  
• PerformanceWith balanced and sustainable performance, the DS3500 storage system is equally adept at delivering throughput to bandwidth-intensive applications and IOPS to transactional applications.

EXP2500 external disk enclosure is a cost-effective, fully integrated Storage complement to IBM® System x® and IBM BladeCenter® servers. Offering substantial improvements at a price that will fit most budgets, the EXP2500 delivers superior price to performance ratios, functionality, scalability and ease-of-use for the entry-level storage user.

• Cost Affordable to meet small and medium businesses budgets
  
• Ease of use Easy to implement and manage with Mega RAID storage manager
  
• Performance It is a performance oriented SAS platform designed to help increase both bandwidth and throughput
  

Affordable, scalable, and robust storage enclosure with the SAS and SATA drive intermix support

• IBM System Storage EXP3000 Features 3 Gbps SAS interface technology Support for up to 7.2TB of SAS disk physical storage capacity (600 GB SAS drives) in a single enclosure
  
  Support for up to 24TB of SATA disk physical storage capacity (2.0TB SATA drives) in a single enclosure
  
  Three EXP3000s can be attached to a DS3000 to expand up to 28.8TB of physical storage capacity when utilising 600 GB SAS drives or 96.0TB of physical storage capacity when utilising 2TB SATA drives
  
  50 GB SATA Solid State Disk drive supported in EXP3000 expansion units that are directly attached to System x servers via the ServeRAID MR10M SAS/SATA controller adapter installed in the System x server