The economical IBM System Storage™ DS3000 disk storage system now employs advanced high performance, hardware-enabled RAID 6 technology designed to protect against multiple disk drive failure. Advanced RAID data protection is as important to small and midrange businesses as it is to the largest enterprises, and the protection offered by DS3000 extends as well to your financial investment in your information infrastructure.
Innovation must provide key value for small and medium businesses
IBM innovations are driven by your need to manage growth, complexity and risk, and to maximize the value of your storage investment. With these goals in mind, IBM has enhanced the functionality of the economical System Storage DS3000 series entry storage family, adding support in several key areas:
RAID 6 support, providing improved data protection against multiple disk drive failure
450 GB/15,000 rpm hot-swap SAS disk drive option, increasing the total amount of high–performance storage capacity available to servers and applications
Storage partition expansion to 32, enabling DS3000 controllers to provide isolated data storage for a larger number of host servers
FlashCopies per volume expansion to 8, allowing more frequent data backups and increased data protection
Support for Sun Solaris on Intel and SPARC servers, offering a new low-cost storage alternative
DS3000 configurations are available as part of the IBM Express Portfolio™, designed and priced to meet the needs of a wide range of businesses. Learn more about the IBM DS3000 disk storage series:
