InfoSlice Disk Guide

Disk Interfaces:

The disk bays of current InfoSlice models are either all ATA (-133/100) disk bays, or all SATA (-155) disk bays, or all SCSI (ultra320/160) disk.

Disk Bays:

The number of bays is a function of rack height of the enclosure,  as shown in the following table.

Number of disk bays:

2U		3U	4U
SATA models	12	16	24
ATA models	12	16	24
SCSI models	12	16	24

 

All bays are hot-swappable.   Each may be selected to be a hot spare.

Multiple RAID sets (and types) can co-exist.  Each set  can have hot spares, or one or more drives may be designated as a 'global hot spare' which is available to all of the RAID sets.

Disk Models:

InfoSlices can accommodate many different disk models (in terms of manufacturer, capacity, seek time, and rotational velocity), and these different disk models can co-exist within one InfoSlice. 

The following table shows the current disk types available for factory installation.

Supported Hard Drives:
Interfaces, Speeds, and Capacities*

Disk type	RPM	Disk capacity, GB
SATA HDD	7200	120, 160, 200, 250
	10000	36, 73
ATA HDD	5400	300
	7200	80, 160, 200, 250
SCSI HDD	10000	36, 73, 146
	15000	36, 73

 

* Please, e-mail or call us to confirm capability of particular disk models you wish to install yourself.

 

For more details see the InfoSlice Specification page