The sixteen SAS/SATA disk drives are connected by an internal SAS controller occupying one or two of the five PCIe slots. The remaining three or four PCIe slots may be used for any PCIe compatible cards including NICs, HBAs, RAID controllers, etc. The BlueStor PCIe Extender essentially extends your host servers PCI Express bus outside the server, providing additional slots for any application; the sixteen drive storage subsystem shared in the common Extender enclosure may or may not be utilized, at the users option.
Key feature and benefits of the BlueStor PCIe Extender Storage System also includes -
- 3U 16-Bay Rackmount Enclosure
- Sixteen 3.5" Disk Canisters
- Hot Swappable HDDs
- Dual Hot Swappable Power Supplies
- SAS/SATA Interface to the drives
- Optional SATA Interface to the drives
- Up to 48 TB Capacity (per enclosure) with SATA drives
- Up to 9.6 TB Capacity (per enclosure) with SAS 15K drives
- Five x8 PCIe Slots
- SAS/SATA JBOD or RAID Controller
- One PCIe x8 Host Connection