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IBM's DS3500 series storage subsystems are extremely flexible in their ability to connect to your environment.  The DS3512 and DS3524 system offer iSCSI, 8Gb/s Fibre Channel and 6Gb/s SAS ports for server connectivity.  The DS3500 series scales to 192 disks and supports RAID levels 0,1,3,5,6 and 10 and operating environments such as Windows, Linux, AIX and VMware.  With options for both 10k and 15k SAS drives as well as high capacity SATA, the need to mix performance and disk space requirements are easily met with this disk subsystem.  

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Hardware summary

• 2U rack-mountable chasses
• Twenty four 2.5" drive bays (model x24) or twelve 3.5" drive bays (model x12)
• Up to 24 TB of physical storage per enclosure using 2 TB near-line SAS disk drive modules or up to 14 TB physical storage per enclosure using 600 GB SAS disk drive modules
• SAS disk drives, near-line SAS disk drives and SSDs
• Redundant dual-active intelligent RAID controllers
• 16 GB cache memory per control enclosure (8 GB per internal RAID controller) as a base feature
• For each control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel host ports (four 8 Gbps FC ports per RAID controller), four 1 Gbps and optionally four 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports (two 1 Gbps and optionally two 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports per RAID controller)
• RAID controller supports attachment of up to nine storage expansion units with configurations up to 240 TB physical storage capacities (480 TB in clustered systems)
• Dual power supplies and cooling components

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