IBM System Storage DCS3860 high-performance controller is designed to deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and simplicity.

The IBM DCS3860 Storage System provides the following features:

• 4U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure
• Two intelligent array controllers with 24 GB cache (12 GB per controller)
• Eight 6 Gb SAS host interface ports (four per controller)
• Four 6 Gb SAS ports for attachment of an EXP3800 Expansion Unit (Two  per controller)
• Four Ethernet ports for system management (two per controller)
• Sixty bays for SAS drives
• Two AC power supplies and cooling units

The DCS3860 also includes the following functions at no additional cost:

• RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 and Dynamic Disk Pooling (DDP)
• 512 Storage partitions
• Host attachment support for Linux on x86 architecture
• IBM DS Storage Manager for administrative and management activities
• Support for 360 drives through attachment of five EXP3800 Expansion  Units
• Support up to 24 SSDs in a complete DCS3860 system configuration

As an additional premium feature option, the DCS3860 includes Performance Read Cache which enables the utilization of SSDs for accelerating reads from the storage, helping to increase performance of the disk system for certain workloads.

The IBM EXP3800 Expansion Unit includes:

• 4U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure
• Two Environmental Services Modules (ESM)
• Sixty bays for SAS drives
• Two AC power supplies and cooling units

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