System Storage DS3200

Highlights

• 3 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host interface and drive expansion technology
• Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager—perfect for inexperienced and/or part-time administrators
• Combination of 12 SAS or SATA 3.5" drives per enclosure
• Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 21.6 TB of storage capacity with 450 GB SAS or up to 48.0 TB with 1.0 TB SATA
• Affordable for the small and medium business (SMB) budgets
• RAID data protection – redundant I/O paths and components, hot spares
• Shared-storage benefits – consolidation, single management, increased efficiencies within the IT infrastructure
• Telco model supports -48 V dc power supplies
• NEBS and ETSI compliance for AC and DC models

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.