Disk drives
The DS8700 and the DS8800 provides you with the following choice of disk drives.
DS8700
The following drives are available in a 3.5" form factor.
Fibre Channel:
v 300 GB, 15K RPM
v 450 GB, 15K RPM
v 600 GB, 15K RPM
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA):
v 2 TB, 7.2K RPM
Fibre Channel drive types with Full Disk Encryption:
v 300 GB, 15K RPM
v 450 GB, 10K RPM
Fibre Channel Solid State Drives (SSDs):
v 600 GB
DS8800
The following drives are available in a 2.5" form factor.
Serial-attached SCSI (SAS):
v 146 GB, 15K RPM
v 300 GB, 15K RPM
v 450 GB, 10K RPM
v 600 GB, 10K RPM
v 900 GB, 10K RPM
SAS drive types with Full Disk Encryption (FDE):
v 146 GB, 15K RPM
v 300 GB, 15K RPM
v 450 GB, 10K RPM
v 600 GB, 10K RPM
v 900 GB, 10K RPM
2.5" SSD:
v 300 GB (nonencryption)
v 400 GB (FDE and nonencryption)
The following is available in a 3.5" form factor.
SAS drive set:
v 3 TB 7.2K RPM (includes nonencryption,FDE and FDE Standby CoD)
Host attachment overview
The DS8000 series provides various host attachments so that you can consolidate
storage capacity and workloads for open-systems hosts and System z.
The DS8000 series provides extensive connectivity using Fibre Channel adapters
across a broad range of server environments.
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