NEW – Support for SAS/SATA intermix in the same enclosure
NEW – Support for 3-enclosure configuration
NEW – Even higher-performance sequential I/O: Now reads and writes at up to 5.9 GBps with no RAID 6 write penalty
NEW – Improved temperature reporting fault handling and ability to shutdown all drives with one command
Dense packaging and capacity: Up to 600 TB in a single rack and 1.2 PB in just two floor tiles using a 4U 60-bay high-density enclosure design
Extreme reliability: Data transfer rates sustained independent of disk or enclosure failures, on-the-fly detection and correction of SATA silent data-corruption errors, and RAID 6 reliability
High availability: Data access assured independent of disk, enclosure or controller failures
Simplified management: Up to 1.2 PB in a single management point
Flexibility: Supports SATA drives for capacity and SAS drives for performance – in the same enclosures
Energy efficient: Fewer controllers, fans and power supplies per TB of storage
Sleep Mode for power savings
Infiniband host connectivity
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 modeling, 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.
