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Expandable Storage Plus
Expandable Storage Plus 320 Models DS4 and TS4 |
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| IBM announces the NEW IBM TotalStorage Expandable Storage Plus 320 Models DS4 and TS4. |
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The new EXP Plus 320 disk enclosures provide support for the latest SCSI Ultra320 technology disk drives for pSeries Servers. EXP Plus 320 offers increased perrformance, as compared to prior EXP Plus models, with affordable prices for direct attach SCSI storage needs in both RAID or non-RAID protected configurations using the complementary pSeries host adapters. The EXP Plus 320 accommodates up to fourteen, hot-swappable IBM U320 disk drives providing over two terabytes (TB) of storage capacity per enclosure. When attached to the pSeries Ultra320 SCSI host adapter, the EXP Plus 320 provides throughput of up to 320MB per second.
Multiple configurations of the EXP Plus 320 are possible to support varied requirements:
- Single host attachment for large capacity needs, up to fourteen disk drives
- Dual host attachment with a single SCSI bus for non-concurrent, high availability needs with high availability cluster multi-processing (HACMP) failover, or
- Dual host attachment with two SCSI buses, each bus with up to seven disk drives
There are two models of the EXP Plus 320:
- The DS4 Model, which is a 19-inch rack-mountable enclosure, ideal for use in single and multiple server configurations.
- The TS4 Model, which is a desk side, self-contained, tower enclosure
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| EXP Plus 320 DS4 |
EXP Plus 320 TS4 |
Each model provides the option for a second power supply providing for redundant power and dual power source configurations. The DS4 model also has the option for -48 V DC power supplies suitable in Telco industry environments.
The IBM EXP Plus 320 attaches to pSeries and select RS/6000 servers with the following host adapters:
- PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter (#5710, #5712)
- PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI RAID Adapter (#5703, #5711)
- PCI Dual Channel Ultra 3 SCSI Adapter (#6203)
- PCI 4-Channel Ultra3 SCSI RAID Adapter (#2498)
- PCI Dual Channel Ultra 2 SCSI Adapter (#6205)
At GA support is available with pSeries servers running AIX and Linux for pSeries. These include:
- Aix 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2 & HACMP 4.4.1, 4.5, 5.1
- Linux on p Series: SuSE and RedHat
This announcement would be incomplete without the new Ultra 320 SCSI Hard Disk Drives, they are:
- 36.4GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K RPM Drive (FC#4036)
- 73.4GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K RPM Drive (FC#4073)
- 146.8GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K RPM Drive (FC#4146)
- 36.4GB Ultra320 SCSI 15K RPM Drive (FC#4536)
- 73.4GB Ultra320 SCSI 15K RPM Drive (FC#4573)
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