Technical Specifications
The technical specifications of the SC7020 storage systems are displayed in
the following tables.
Drives
SAS hard drives Up to 30 2.5-inch SAS hot-swappable hard drives (12GB
SAS)
Storage Controllers
Storage
controllers
Up to two hot-swappable storage controllers with one
mezzanine card and three IO slots.
Storage Connectivity
Configurations Storage Center supports up to 168 drives in one
redundant-path SAS chain
• An SC7020 supports up to 12 SC400 expansion
enclosures or 6 SC420 expansion enclosures
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
Controller Two hot-swappable storage controllers
Management RAID management using Storage Manager Client
Back-Panel Ports Connectors (per Storage Controller)
Fibre Channel,
iSCSI, or SAS
connectors
Connection to a Fiber Channel fabric, iSCSI network
Ethernet
connectors
MGMT: 100 Mbps, or 1 Gbps embedded Ethernet port
used for Storage Center management
SAS connectors 12GB SAS connectors for additional expansion
enclosures
NOTE: SAS connectors are SFF-8086/SFF-8088
compliant
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