The IBM® System Storage® EXN1000
SATA storage expansion unit is a SATA disk storage device for IBM System Storage N series systems. The EXN1000 3U
disk storage expansion unit may be mounted in any industry-standard
19-inch rack.
The EXN1000 contains:
- Dual redundant hot-pluggable integrated power supplies and cooling
fans
- Dual redundant disk storage expansion unit switched controllers
- Fourteen hard disk drive bays.
The EXN1000 SATA storage expansion unit is shipped with a minimum
of five SATA disk drives, up to a maximum of 14 disk drives (all of
the same capacity), in 250 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB,
750 GB, 1
TB or
2 TB physical capacities.
- With 250 GB SATA hard disk drives, each EXN1000 provides a maximum
of 3.5 TB of physical storage capacity.
- With 320 GB SATA hard disk drives, each EXN1000 provides a maximum
of 4.48 TB of physical storage capacity.
- With 500 GB SATA hard disk drives, each EXN1000 provides a maximum
of 7 TB of physical storage capacity.
- With 750 GB SATA hard disk drives, each EXN1000 provides a maximum
of 10.5 TB of physical storage capacity.
- With 1 TB SATA hard disk drives, each EXN1000 provides a maximum
of 14 TB of physical storage capacity.
- With 2 TB SATA hard disk drives, each EXN1000 provides
a maximum of 28 TB of physical storage capacity.
Note: While the initial order must contain 14 drives, at
least five of the drives must be installed in the EXN1000 enclosure
with drive blank covers (feature 4099) covering the remaining drive
bays.
Attention: 320 GB SATA hard disk drives are not supported for use
in EXN1000s when used in N7700 and N7900 filer configurations.