IBM System Storage DS3200

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Highlights

• 3Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hostinterface and drive expansion technology
• Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager - perfect forinexperienced and/or part-time administrators
• Combination of 12 SAS or SATA 3.5" drives per enclosure
• Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 21.6TB of storage capacity with 450GB SAS or up to 48.0TB with 1.0TB SATA
• Affordable for the small and medium business (SMB) budgets
• RAID data protection – redundant I/O paths and components, hot spares
• Shared-storage benefits – consolidation, single management,increased efficiencies within the ITinfrastructure
• Telco model supports - 48 V dc power supplies
• NEBS and ETSI compliance for AC and DC models

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SMBs face unique challenges. When new servers are purchased, typically they will house several drives. For a SMB with a restrictive budget, this is often viewed as a convenient and low-cost solution for their data storage. However as the organisation grows, this distributed storage strategy leads to wasted data space, duplicated functions,inefficienciesin data protection and availabilityinconsistencies.

A SMB can take an overburdenedinternal storageinfrastructure to the next level by using the flexible and affordable SAS-based DS3200 Express storage system. The DS3200 combines next-generation SAS technology with time-proven designs for external storage andintuitive managementinterface to create a fully-featured storage system ideally-suited for the SMB. By moving storage outside the server and sharing storage across several servers, the business canincrease the capacity, management efficiency and availability of their data solution.

Product features		Hardware summary
Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager Scalable by using up to three EXP3000 units for support of up to 48 SAS and/or SATA disks Affordable for restrictive SMB budgets Telco model with 48 V dc power supplies		2U rack mount enclosure with 12 easily accessible drive bays Support for dual-port and hot-swappable SAS disks at 15,000 rpm speeds and SATA disks at 7,200 rpm speed Scalable to 5.4TB of storage capacity with 450GB hot-swappable SAS disks or 12.0TB with SATA disksin the first enclosure Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 21.6TB of storage capacity with 450GB SAS or up to 48.0TB with 1.0TB SATA Support for high-performance SAS and/or high capacity SATA drives within the same enclosure addresses the needs of tiered storage and ILM solutions Built-in reliability features with dual-redundant power supplies standard Three-year limited warranty 1 on parts and labor