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.  

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 Single ESM
MegaRAID 8480 features		RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 64 logical drive support Online capacity expansion RAID level migration (RLM) Configuration on disk (COD) Patrol read & S.M.A.R.T. support MegaRAID Manager GUI included with MegaRAID 8480

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.

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 DS5000 series is designed to meet today 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		201.6 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
Solutions		Oracle, SQL, Exchange, VMware, IBM DB2®

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).

Disk ports		8 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Host ports		8 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Physical storage capacity		67.2 TB Fibre Channel/168 TB of Serial ATA (SATA)
Cache		Up to 16 GB

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.

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.

The IBM XIV Storage System™ is an enterprise-class, Tier-1 disk system designed to deliver high performance and eliminate hot spots through full exploitation of all system resources for all applications. Its revolutionary architecture provides performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives. The XIV Storage System is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. It employs a single storage architecture designed to provide the highest level of performance, reliability and features, together with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.

Capacity		180 TB raw capacity 24 FC ports (4Gbps, 2Gbps or 1Gbps) 6 iSCSI ports 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth
Functionality		Near-instantaneous snapshots Volume cloning with immediate availability Remote mirroring over FC or iSCSI connection
Reliability		Active – Active N + 1 redundancy of all system components Rapid disk rebuild

The IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo offers high–performance, high–capacity, secure storage systems that are designed to deliver resiliency and total value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments.

Capacity		1.1 TB up to 1024 TB with multiple drive options
Functionality		Robust mirroring and copy functions that can help protect data from planned or unplanned outages; Exceptional support for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads; Innovative self-encrypting disk drives for protection of sensitive information from internal and external threats; Heterogeneous server platform support; Flexible configuration options and high scalability to support storage consolidation through tiered storage
Total cost of ownership (TCO)		Enterprise Choice warranty of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years on hardware and advanced functions offers dramatic opportunities to help organizations reduce the TCO of their storage systems.

The IBM System Storage™ DR550 is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and retaining business information with security, integrity and operational efficiency.

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.  

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 Single ESM
MegaRAID 8480 features		RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 64 logical drive support Online capacity expansion RAID level migration (RLM) Configuration on disk (COD) Patrol read & S.M.A.R.T. support MegaRAID Manager GUI included with MegaRAID 8480

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.

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 DS5000 series is designed to meet today 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		201.6 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
Solutions		Oracle, SQL, Exchange, VMware, IBM DB2®

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).

Disk ports		8 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Host ports		8 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Physical storage capacity		67.2 TB Fibre Channel/168 TB of Serial ATA (SATA)
Cache		Up to 16 GB

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.

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.

The IBM XIV Storage System™ is an enterprise-class, Tier-1 disk system designed to deliver high performance and eliminate hot spots through full exploitation of all system resources for all applications. Its revolutionary architecture provides performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives. The XIV Storage System is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. It employs a single storage architecture designed to provide the highest level of performance, reliability and features, together with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.

Capacity		180 TB raw capacity 24 FC ports (4Gbps, 2Gbps or 1Gbps) 6 iSCSI ports 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth
Functionality		Near-instantaneous snapshots Volume cloning with immediate availability Remote mirroring over FC or iSCSI connection
Reliability		Active – Active N + 1 redundancy of all system components Rapid disk rebuild

The IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo offers high–performance, high–capacity, secure storage systems that are designed to deliver resiliency and total value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments.

Capacity		1.1 TB up to 1024 TB with multiple drive options
Functionality		Robust mirroring and copy functions that can help protect data from planned or unplanned outages; Exceptional support for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads; Innovative self-encrypting disk drives for protection of sensitive information from internal and external threats; Heterogeneous server platform support; Flexible configuration options and high scalability to support storage consolidation through tiered storage
Total cost of ownership (TCO)		Enterprise Choice warranty of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years on hardware and advanced functions offers dramatic opportunities to help organizations reduce the TCO of their storage systems.

The IBM System Storage™ DR550 is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and retaining business information with security, integrity and operational efficiency.

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.  

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 Single ESM
MegaRAID 8480 features		RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 64 logical drive support Online capacity expansion RAID level migration (RLM) Configuration on disk (COD) Patrol read & S.M.A.R.T. support MegaRAID Manager GUI included with MegaRAID 8480

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.

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™ 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).

Disk ports		8 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Host ports		8 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Physical storage capacity		67.2 TB Fibre Channel/168 TB of Serial ATA (SATA)
Cache		Up to 16 GB

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.

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.

The IBM XIV Storage System™ is an enterprise-class, Tier-1 disk system designed to deliver high performance and eliminate hot spots through full exploitation of all system resources for all applications. Its revolutionary architecture provides performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives. The XIV Storage System is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. It employs a single storage architecture designed to provide the highest level of performance, reliability and features, together with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.

Capacity		180 TB raw capacity 24 FC ports (4Gbps, 2Gbps or 1Gbps) 6 iSCSI ports 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth
Functionality		Near-instantaneous snapshots Volume cloning with immediate availability Remote mirroring over FC or iSCSI connection
Reliability		Active – Active N + 1 redundancy of all system components Rapid disk rebuild

The IBM System Storage™ DR550 is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and retaining business information with security, integrity and operational efficiency.

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.  

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 Single ESM
MegaRAID 8480 features		RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 64 logical drive support Online capacity expansion RAID level migration (RLM) Configuration on disk (COD) Patrol read & S.M.A.R.T. support MegaRAID Manager GUI included with MegaRAID 8480

The IBM System Storage™ DR550 is designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of managing and retaining business information with security, integrity and operational efficiency.