Customer Needs
High availability, exceptional scalability and superior performance for high-bandwidth applications.
Benefits
Ability to use SAS and SATA drives to achieve the right performance, reliability, and price.
Key Differentiators
Point-to-point connectivity isolates drive failures, increasing reliability, and fault tolerance and improves performance.
Meet your growing data demands with your choice of 9TB of SATA storage or 3.6TB of SAS storage
Maximum Capacity
SATA: Up to 12 drives (9TB) capacity per 2U enclosure
SAS: Up to 12 drives (3.6TB) capacity per 2U enclosure
(Expansion for Snap Server 520 Systems requires optional Snap Server SAS HBA)
Hot Swappable and Redundant Components
Two advanced power and cooling modules (APC)
Two independent AC power inlets
Up to 12 drives
No active components on data path
Disk Drive Interface
Twelve independent 300MB/s point-to-point connections to each SAS or SATA disk drive
Disk Drives
Capacity: Up to 750GB
Rotational velocity: 7200 RPM, 10K RPM, 15K RPM
Interface: 3Gb SAS; 3Gb/1.5Gb SATA II
Form factor: 3.5in. form factor, 1.0in. height
Supported drives: Only S50/Snap Server disk drives
Host Interface
One SAS I/O module supports one SAS connection
SAS connections can be used for host connections or as a combination of host connection and expansion
Each SAS connection supports up to 1,200MB/s
Measured Performance
Up to 750MB/s (sustained reads)
I/O Module Features
Single controller
SAS and SATA support
Autonegotiate speeds
Inband and out-of-band management
SMP and SSP command/protocol support
Maximum SAS Cable Length
Up to 3m
Monitoring
Temperature, advanced power and cooling modules including fan speed control, disk drives, and I/O module, as well as error rates and quality of service on each SAS.
Failure Notification
SCSI enclosure services (SES-2) over I2C physical interface, LEDs, audible alarms, FRU (field replaceable unit) revision and serial number reporting, events reported to storage management software.
AC Power
Input voltage: Autoranging, 85-264 VAC
Input frequency: 47-63 Hz
Power factor correction: Per EN61000-3-2
Input current: 100-240 VAC @ 4-2.5 A
Output power: 491 W peak, 430 W average
Height
3.5 inches (89mm)
Width
17.6 inches (447mm)
Depth
19.5 inches (495.3mm)
Weight with Drives
60 lbs (27 kg) max
Warranty
3-year system warranty