Storage
| Number of storage drives supported |
16 |
| Maximum supported storage capacity |
16 TB |
| Supported storage drive types |
HDD |
| Installed storage drive type |
HDD |
| Storage drives installed |
N |
| Hot-swap drive bays |
Y |
Power
| Number of power supply units |
2 |
| Power supply unit (PSU) capacity |
600 W |
EXP395 Storage Expansion Unit, 16x FC/SATA HDD, Rack 3U
Highlights
- Simplify storage infrastructure with 8 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces
- Leverage mixed-host interfaces support (Fibre Channel and iSCSI) for storage area network (SAN) tiering
- Gain balanced performance well-suited for virtualization and consolidation
- Support for intermixing Fibre Channel, SATA and FC-SAS drives enabling cost-effective tiered storage
- Support up to 112 disk drive modules using up to six IBM® System Storage® EXP395 expansion units
- Deploy trusted storage that protects and delivers your data when needed
- Gain the flexibility to address a wide range of storage needs
- Use feature-rich management software to maximize utilization and minimize storage total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Help ensure confidence with key application certifications
- Centrally manage storage with IBM System Storage DS® Storage Manager
Optimized data management requires storage solutions with high data availability, strong storage management capabilities and powerful performance features. IBM System Storage DS3950 Express is designed to provide lower total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality and unparalleled ease of use. As part of the IBM DS series, DS3950 Express offers:
- High-performance 8 Gbps Fibre Channel connections
- The option of a 1 Gbps iSCSI interface in Model 98H
- Up to 224 TB of raw physical capacity using 112 SATA 3.5-inch (2 TB) disk drives
- Powerful system management, data management and data protection features
Common features
- Dynamic capacity expansion (DCE)
- IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager Software
- IBM FlashCopy® to take point-in-time copies of logical volumes
- Dynamic volume expansion
- VolumeCopy feature designed to provide full replication of one logical volume to another
- Enhanced Remote Mirror to multi-logical unit number (LUN) applications
- Hot-spare disk drives
Hardware summary
- Up to 4 GB cache battery-backed
- Up to eight host ports, four drive ports—Fibre Channel Switched and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, Auto-sensing 2 Gbps/4 Gbps, optional 1 Gbps iSCSI interface
- 4 Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 450 GB and 600 GB 15k rpm
- 4 Gbps SATA: 1 TB and 2 TB 7.2k rpm
- 6 Gbps FC-SAS: 300 GB, 600 GB and 900 GB 10k rpm
- RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10 support
- Up to 128 storage partitions
- 112 Fibre Channel, FC-SAS or SATA drives (using six EXP395 expansion units)
- Dual redundant, hot-swappable cooling fans
- 19-inch, industry-standard rack
