Originally posted by: TonyPearson
Today, January 16, IBM launches its latest disk system, the DS3000 series.
There are actually three products in the DS3000 series:
- DS3200
The DS3200 is a 2U high, 12 drive system that attaches to servers via 3Gbps Serial Attach (SAS) interface.You can expand this to 48 drives by added EXP3000 expansion units. Here are theDS3200 specifications.
- DS3400
The DS3400 is a 2U high, 12 drive system that attaches to servers via 4Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) interface.You can expand this to 48 drives by added EXP3000 expansion units. Here are the DS3400 specifications.
- EXP3000
The EXP3000 is a 2U high, 12 drive expansion drawer. It was announced back in August 2006, but is part of theoverall DS3000 series. It can be used directly with servers, but is also designed to be attached to the back of the DS3200 or DS3400 to increase capacity.Here are the EXP3000 specifications.
With this announcement, IBM provides entry-level storage at the "less-than-$5000" price point, withsupport for intermix of 10K and 15K RPM drives, and scalable up to 14.4 TB capacity.This would be ideal storage for HP, Dell, IBM System x and BladeCenter servers.
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