The EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer is an expansion drawer with twenty-four 2.5-inch form factor SAS bays. #5887 supports up to 24 hot-swap SFF SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD). It uses only 2 EIA of space in a 19-inch rack. The EXP24S includes redundant AC power supplies and two power cords. The EXP24S SFF bays use Gen-2 or SFF-2 SAS bays that are not compatible with CEC SFF Gen-1 SAS bays or with #5802/ 5803 SFF SAS bays.
#5887 has Fixed Length Rails for installation to standard POWER Systems 19-inch Racks such as: 7014-T42, 7014-T00, #0551, #0553
Mode 1 : 2x or 4x of the Ports are used
The EXP24S SAS ports are attached to SAS controller(s) which can be a SAS PCI-X or PCIe adapter or pair of adapters. The EXP24S can also be attached to an imbedded SAS controller in a server with an imbedded SAS port. Attachment between the SAS controller and the EXP24S SAS ports is via the appropriate SAS Y or X cables.
SAS SSF Gen2 HDDs & SSDs:-------------------------IBM i:------#1947 139GB 15K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (IBM i)#1948 283GB 15K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (IBM i)#1956 283GB 10K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (IBM i)#1962 571GB 10K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (IBM i)#1738 856GB 10K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (IBM i)
AIX/Linux:----------#1917 146GB 15K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (AIX/Linux)#1925 300GB 10K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (AIX/Linux)#1953 300GB 15K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (AIX/Linux)#1964 600GB 10K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (AIX/Linux)#1752 900GB 10K RPM SAS SFF-2 HDD (AIX/Linux)
SSDs:-----#1793 177GB SAS SFF-2 SSD w/eMLC SFF2/Gen2 (AIX/Linux)#ES0C 387GB SAS SFF-2 SSD w/eMLC (AIX/Linux)#1794 177GB SAS SSF-2 SSD w/eMLC SFF2/Gen2 (IBM i)#ES0D 387GB SAS SFF-2 SSD w/eMLC (IBM i)
