DS3200 System Storage

Highlights

• 3 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host interface and drive expansion technology
• DS3000 Storage Manager is easy to use for inexperienced and/or part-time administrators
• Combination of 12 SASup to 7.2 TBor SATAup to 24.0 TBdrives per enclosure
• Expandable to 28.8 TB with SAS or up to 96.0 TB SATA with up to three EXP3000 enclosures
• Affordable for small and medium business (SMB) budgets
• RAID data protectionredundant I/O paths and components, hot spares
• Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) and European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI) compliance

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 organization grows, this distributed storage strategy leads to wasted data space, duplicated functions, inefficiencies in data protection and availability inconsistencies.

A SMB can take an overburdened internal storage infrastructure 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 and intuitive management interface 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 can increase the capacity, management efficiency and availability of their data solution.

Product features

• 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
• 2U rack mount enclosure with 12 easily accessible drive bays

Hardware summary

• 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 7.2 TB of storage capacity with 600 GB hot-swappable SAS disks or 24.0 TB with SATA disks in the first enclosure
• Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 28.8 TB of storage capacity with 600 GB SAS or up to 96.0 TB with 2.0 TB 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 warranty² on parts and labor

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