IBM System Storage DCS9900

Highlights

• NEW - Support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)/Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) intermix in the same enclosure
• NEW - Support for 3-enclosure configuration
• NEW - Even higher-performance sequential I/O: Now reads and writes at up to 5.9 GigaBytes per second (GBps) with no Redundant Array of Independant Disks (RAID) 6 write penalty
• NEW - Improved temperature reporting fault handling and ability to shutdown all drives with one command
• Dence packaging and capacity: Up to 600TB in a single rack and 1.2 PetaByte (PB) in just two floor tiles using a 4U 60-bay high-density enclosure design
• Extreme reliability: Data transfer rates sustained independent of disk or enclosure failures, on-the-fly detection and correction of SATA silent data-corruption errors and RAID 6 reliability
• High availability: Data access assured independent of disk, enclosure or controller failures
• Simplified management: Up to 1.2PB in a single management point
• Flexibility: Supports SATA drives for capacity and SAS drives for performance - in the same enclosures
• Energy efficient: Fewer controllers, fans and power supplies per TB of storage
• Sleep Mode for power savings
• Infiniband host connectivity.

High-performance storage for streaming I/O applications

The IBM System Storage DCS9900 Storage System is designed for applications with high-performance streaming data requirements served by Deep Computing systems, IBM System p High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and System x 1350 Linux® Cluster systems.

Applications such as those in HPC, rich media, life sciences and government research require high-performance, reliable access to streaming data and extreme capacity and density to simplify management and reduce cost. Examples of such applications include weather forecasting, seismic processing, reservoir modeling, high definition (HD) creation and distribution, proteomics, structural analysis, fluid dynamics and gene sequencing. With its parallel storage solution architecture the DCS9900 is specifically designed to address those needs.