In a continuing effort to provide storage solutions that are designed to provide low total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality, and unparalleled ease of use, IBM offers the IBM System Storage™ DS5020 Express™. As part of the DS series, the DS5020 Express offers high-performance 8 Gbps capable Fibre Channel connections, optional 1 Gbps iSCSI interface for less demanding applications and lower cost implementation, up to 50.4 TB of Fibre Channel physical storage capacity, up to 112 TB of SATA physical storage capacity, and powerful system management, data management and data protection features. The DS5020 Express is designed to expand from workgroup to enterprise-wide capability with up to six Fibre Channel expansion units with the EXP520 Expansion Unit.
Physical storage capacity
50.4 TB Fibre Channel, 112 TB SATA)
Cache
Up to 4 GB
Host ports
8 – 8 Gbps Fibre Channel or 4 – 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 4 – 1 Gbps iSCSI
The DS5000 series is designed to meet today's and tomorrow’s demanding open-systems requirements while establishing a new standard for life cycle longevity with field-replaceable host interface cards. The DS5000 series seventh-generation architecture delivers relentless performance, real reliability, multi-dimensional scalability and unprecedented investment protection.
Capacity
268.8 TB (using all Fibre Channel disk drives), 448 TB using all SATA disk drives)
Storage Management
DS Storage Manager
Performance
Up to 700,000 burst cached IOPs and up to 6,400 sustained throughput disk reads
The IBM System Storage™ DS4800 disk storage system supports a high-performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface. Increased host connectivity delivers the necessary bandwidth for high-throughput applications. Designed for data-intensive applications that demand increased connectivity, eight 4 Gbps host channels can help provide up to 1724 MBps of sustained bandwidth, allowing for high&45;throughput applications through eight channels directly attached to the host servers or connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN). Request a quote
In a continuing effort to provide storage solutions that are designed to provide low total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality, and unparalleled ease of use, IBM offers the IBM System Storage™ DS4700 Express. As part of the DS4000 series, the DS4700 Express offers high-performance 4 Gbps capable Fibre Channel connections, up to 33.6 TB of Fibre Channel physical storage capacity, 112 TB of SATA physical storage capacity, and powerful system management, data management and data protection features. The DS4700 Express is designed to expand from workgroup to enterprise&45;wide capability with up to six Fibre Channel expansion units with the DS4000 EXP810 Expansion Unit.
Starting at $19,449(IBM US list price)*
The IBM System Storage EXP24 is designed to give cost-conscious businesses an entry-level server that can help meet storage and near-line application storage needs without undo expense, while leaving them room to grow. The EXP24 is scalable up to 7.2 TB of Ultra 320 SCSI physical disk storage with 24 internal 300 GB disks. The EXP24 is designed to provide ample yet scalable storage without the cost of extra expansion units. This storage server also is designed to help consolidate storage into a centrally managed environment. Request a quote
Grows with your business
Well-suited for small to medium-sized enterprises that need affordable, entry-level storage
Expandable
Supports storage expansion of up to 24 Ultra 320 SCSI disk drives. Expandable to over 7 Terabytes of storage capacity
High-availability
Offers high-availability features, including redundant power supplies, cooling and hot swap DASD
Reliability
Provides up to four SCSI initiator host ports designed to economically attachment of up to 8 servers to a single EXP24 or for failover capabilities
Configurable
Configurable as either 4 groups of 6 drives or 2 groups of 12 drives with either single or dual connection any group of drives
The IBM System Storage EXP3000 is a high-density 2U, 19” rack-mountable driven closure designed for supporting a total of 12 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.5-inch disk drives.
The dual-port MegaRAID 8480 adapter is optimized for cost-sensitive and space-limited environments that demand both feature-rich and high-performance solutions. The adapter delivers an intelligent and robust RAID solution supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50, and utilizing a high-performance Intel I/O processor for optimum RAID performance and a PCI-Express host interface for increased bandwidth.
Together, the EXP3000 and MegaRAID 8480 leverage leading Serial-attached SCSI (SAS), the new interface technology with broad industry commitment and interoperability behind it. A maximum of four EXP3000s can be cascaded from the MegaRAID 8480 adapter to support a total of 48 disks while simultaneously improving performance of the configuration due to higher number of disks.
Starting at $3,199.00(IBM US list price)*
IBM System Storage EXP3000 Features
SAS 10,000-rpm capacities 73 GB, 146 GB, 300 GB
SAS 15,000-rpm capacities 36 GB, 73 GB, 146 GB
Point-to-point architecture
Customer replaceable components
Two SAS 4x connections at the rear of the board for external connections
The IBM System Storage EXP420 Storage Expansion Unit (18128VH) is a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk-only storage expansion unit for use with the DS4200 Express Model 7V. Request a quote
Compact and scalable
Compact, 3U rack-mount disk expansion enclosure that accommodates 16 DS4200 SATA Enhanced Value Disk Drive Modules (EV-DDMs), offering up to 8 TB of physical capacity per expansion unit.
Hot-swappable components
Redundant, hot-swappable power supply and cooling components
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. Request a quote
Scalable
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 2 Gbps Fibre Channel Enhanced Disk Drive Modules (E-DDM), as well as 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Enhanced Disk Drive Modules (E-DDM), or 4 Gbps Serial ATA Enhanced Disk Drive Modules(E-DDM).
AC and DC support
Supports redundant (AC) or (DC) power and cooling modules, and ESM interfaces.
