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IBM System Storage DS6800 Model 1750-522
Description: Model ID 1750-522 / IBM System Storage DS6800 Model 1750-522 - Hard drive array - rack-mountable - 16 bays - 0 x HD - 4Gb Fibre Channel - ... more  IBM System Storage DS6800 Model 1750-522 ... 3U / The IBM System Storage DS6000 series is designed to provide high availability and high performance in a small, modular package. This series, along with the DS8000 series, offers an enterprise-class continuum of storage systems with shared replication services and common management interfaces. The DS6000 series systems are well suited to help you simplify your storage infrastructure, support business continuity, and optimize information lifecycle management.As part of the IBM System Storage DS Family, the DS6800 is designed to provide medium and large businesses with a low-cost, enterprise-class storage solution to help simplify data management and to provide comprehensive data protection and recovery capabilities and easy scalability for both mainframe and open system storage needs. Newest Review: ... say you'd have to try quite hard to kill it. Also this unit comes with old fashioned IBM support, that I haven't seen with ... more ... any of the other gear we have. When a DDM or Banjo fails, I get a call from IBM before I've even had a chance to notice myself, telling me the replacement should be in my inwards goods store, and sure enough it always is.
There are cheaper options for outright performance in the midrange products, but if you want reliability, you couldn't go past this system. If they ever get around to adding thin provisioning as per their original direction documents, or if you're lucky enough like us, to have SAN Filesystem or GPFS, th...more |
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by Stephen Holland - written on 28.03.07
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We've had a DS6800 for a couple of years now. A fantastic array. From an ease of maintenance and deployment perspective it's been fantastic, and whilst we do get component failures, the array as a whole is bullet proof. I think IBM's strategy of assuming components do fail, and allowing for that with bucket loads of component redundancy is a pragmatic, albeit slightly pricey approach to delivering reliability. We've had a number of environment related issues and a couple of firmware loads that killed half the unit, and yet the primary functionality kept on going without skipping a beat. Indeed after 2 years with our unit, I'd say you'd have to try quite hard to kill ...
| Processing/Quality: |  75% |
Reliability: |  100% |
| Installation: | 100% |
Speed: |  50% |
Technical Details for IBM System Storage DS6800 Model 1750-522
| Product Description | IBM System Storage DS6800 Model 1750-522 - hard drive array |
| Device Type | Hard drive array |
| Enclosure Type | Rack-mountable - 3U |
| Interface | 4Gb Fibre Channel |
| Host Channels | 8 |
| Installed Devices / Modules Qty | 16 (max) |
| Built-in Devices | Led panel |
| Storage Controller | 2 x RAID ( FATA ) - RAID 5, 10 |
| Hard Drive | 0 hot-swap |
| Power | AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz ) |
| Manufacturer Warranty | 1 year warranty |
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