Chapter 2. System overview
Chassis
The system is housed in a 5U chassis that contains two drawers of 42 drives each (84 drives in total).
The system is shown in the following figures.
The system uses 3.5” SATA drives. Each drive is hot pluggable and can be replaced on site.
The enclosure core product
The Slicestor
®
design concept is based on an enclosure subsystem together with a set of plug-in modules.
A typical enclosure system for direct dock SATA (as supplied) comprises:
v The enclosure chassis has the following parts.
– Two sliding drawers containing Disk Drive In Carrier (DDIC) modules
– An operator’s (ops) panel
– A front bezel
– A midplane PCB into which other components connect
v Two Power Supply Units (PSUs). The system can be operated on a single PSU.
v One PSU module blank.
v Five cooling modules.
Figure 7. Enclosure front view
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