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General Information
1.1 Product Descriptions
The DECArray300
™
cabinet system is a storage array product with one to six
storage elements.
The DECArray300 cabinet system accommodates up to six RA90/RA92
™
disk
drives, or up to 24 5 1/4-inch disk drives or up to four tape drives in mixed
configurations. The I/O panel Sx300 supports standard disk interface (SDI
™
)
and DSSI
™
interfaces. There are three I/O panels Sx300 supplied with the
cabinet:
• Two I/O panels for SDI with each 24 slots.
• One SDI/DSSI I/O panel with 12 DSSI and 8 SDI slots. The 12 DSSI slots
Sx300 support a maximum of 24 DSSI drives, dual hosting.
You can mount two I/O panels per cabinet. These are possible combinations:
• Two SDI I/O panels to Sx300 support maximum 24 SDI drives dual porting
(48 SDI connections).
• One SDI I/O panel with 24 SDI connections and DSSI panel with 12
DSSI connections and 8 SDI connections. This results in a total of 32 SDI
connections. 32 SDI connections Sx300 support maximum of 16 SDI disk
or tape drives dual porting. With the combination of the DSSI and SDI I/O
panel, it is possible to mix SDI and DSSI storage elements in one cabinet.
See Table 1–1 for a listing of available cabinets with their model numbers.
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