3 Gigabits per second (Gbps) SAS drive expansion technology
Support for up to 5.4 TB of SAS disk physical storage capacity (450 GB SAS drives) in a single enclosure
Support for up to 12 TB of SATA disk physical storage capacity (1.0 TB SATA drives) in a single enclosure
SAS or SATA hard disk drive (HDD) intermix supported with select IBM System x, IBM System p and IBM BladeCenter servers using the DS3000 series of storage systems, MegaRAID or ServeRAID host bus adapters (HBAs)
Three EXP3000s can be attached to a DS3000 storage system to expand up to 21.6 TB of physical storage capacity when utilising 450 GB SAS drives or 48.0 TB of physical storage capacity when utilising 1 TB SATA drives
Telco model supports -48 V DC power supplies
NEBS and ETSI compliance for AC and DC models
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.
The IBM System Storage EXP3000 Express is a high-density 2U, 19" rack mount driven closure designed for supporting a total of twelve 3.5" disk drives.
IBM System x Server Attachment
Robust and flexible, the EXP3000 Express can be used as a direct-attach solution for IBM System x servers with support of MegaRAID or ServeRAID HBAs. Multiple EXP3000s can be connected to expand capacity and to help address your data needs today and tomorrow.
Solid state drives present an opportunity to simplify local storage infrastructure to help maintain overall maintenance and cooling cost, while considering remote storage solutions for end-to-end data availability as part of their System x ecosystem. Solid state drives are an appropriate solution for local operating system booting, high performance input/output applications and some local storage space. Increasingly, solid state storage may be a practical component in balancing datacentre cost, reliability and manageability.
IBM System Storage DS3000 Express Series
The EXP3000 Express supports attachment to the DS3000 Express Series providing a highly available storage system scaling up to 48 SAS and/or SATA disk drives. Up to three EXP3000s can be connected to expand capacity and input/output per second (IOPs) performance of the solution to help address your data needs today and tomorrow.
Common features
Affordable – A high capacity and robust solution for cost-focused budget
Flexible – Supports SAS and SATA drive intermix for tiered storage within a single enclosure
Scalable – Increase disk capacity with multiple EXP3000s
Performance-oriented – SAS technology enables high bandwidth and high throughput
Robust – Customer-replaceable and hot-swappable components and point-to-point architecture ensure high reliability.
