3 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host interface and drive expansion technology
Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager—perfect for inexperienced and/or part-time administrators
Combination of 12 SAS or SATA 3.5" drives per enclosure
Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 21.6 TB of storage capacity with 450 GB SAS or up to 48.0 TB with 1.0 TB SATA
Affordable for the small and medium business (SMB) budgets
RAID data protection – redundant I/O paths and components, hot spares
Shared-storage benefits – consolidation, single management, increased efficiencies within the IT infrastructure
Telco model supports -48 V dc power supplies
NEBS and ETSI compliance for AC and DC models
SMBs face unique challenges. When new servers are purchased, typically they will house several drives. For a SMB with a restrictive budget, this is often viewed as a convenient and low-cost solution for their data storage. However as the organization grows, this distributed storage strategy leads to wasted data space, duplicated functions, inefficiencies in data protection and availability inconsistencies.
A SMB can take an overburdened internal storage infrastructure to the next level by using the flexible and affordable SAS-based DS3200 Express storage system. The DS3200 combines next-generation SAS technology with time-proven designs for external storage and intuitive management interface to create a fully-featured storage system ideally-suited for the SMB. By moving storage outside the server and sharing storage across several servers, the business can increase the capacity, management efficiency and availability of their data solution.
Product features
Hardware summary
Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager
Scalable by using up to three EXP3000 units for support of up to 48 SAS and/or SATA disks
Affordable for restrictive SMB budgets
Telco model with 48 V dc power supplies
2U rack mount enclosure with 12 easily accessible drive bays
Support for dual-port and hot-swappable SAS disks at 15,000 rpm speeds and SATA disks at 7,200 rpm speed
Scalable to 5.4 TB of storage capacity with 450 GB hot-swappable SAS disks or 12.0 TB with SATA disks in the first enclosure
Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 21.6 TB of storage capacity with 450 GB SAS or up to 48.0 TB with 1.0 TB SATA
Support for high-performance SAS and/or high capacity SATA drives within the same enclosure addresses the needs of tiered storage and ILM solutions
Built-in reliability features with dual-redundant power supplies standard
Three-year limited warranty2 on parts and labor
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