IBM DS4400 TotalStorage Midrange Disk System

IBM DS4400 TotalStorage Midrange Disk System
Manufacturer: IBM
Product Type: Personal Computer

Editorial Review:
Product Description
As routine business processes become increasingly data-dependent, companies are ramping up their storage infrastructures. But today's companies must weigh storage requirements against tightening budgets. Solutions must be cost-effective, scalable and accommodate a variety of storage requirements.IBM provides flexible business solutions that are designed to offer maximized price-to-performance ratios. IBM TotalStorage FAStT700 Storage Server is a full-Fiber Channel, Storage Area Net work (SAN) solution designed to provide the necessary performance at the right price. The newest members of the FAStT family, the FAStT700 Storage Server and FAStT FC-2 host bus adapter use today's most sophisticated Fiber Channel technology, which transfers data at the rate of 2 Gbps. This new technology allows large amounts of data to be consolidated for quicker, more efficient access and management. Buy what you need now, add more later. The FAStT700 is a scalable storage server designed to allow you to build on your initial investment. Simply upgrade, not replace as your needs increase. The FAStT700 scales from 36 GB to 16 TB of storage using 22 FAStT EXP500 expansion enclosures. Each expansion enclosure supports up to 10 Fiber Channel disk drives. Moreover, you can select the appropriate RAID level (from RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10) to match an application or suit particular needs, helping you to extend and lever-age investments now and in the future.

Average customer rating:

Doesn't come with a cable!
sorry but..
A little expensive
Awesome for Research
Great Storage

IBM DS4400 TotalStorage Midrange Disk System

Manufacturer: IBM
ProductGroup: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers

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Product Features:

Scalable storage server
Data transfer rate of 2 Gbps
Quick, efficient management of data storage
User-selected RAID level
Sophisticated Fiber Channel technology

ASIN: B00006HTIP

Product Description

As routine business processes become increasingly data-dependent, companies are ramping up their storage infrastructures. But today's companies must weigh storage requirements against tightening budgets. Solutions must be cost-effective, scalable and accommodate a variety of storage requirements.IBM provides flexible business solutions that are designed to offer maximized price-to-performance ratios. IBM TotalStorage FAStT700 Storage Server is a full-Fiber Channel, Storage Area Net work (SAN) solution designed to provide the necessary performance at the right price. The newest members of the FAStT family, the FAStT700 Storage Server and FAStT FC-2 host bus adapter use today's most sophisticated Fiber Channel technology, which transfers data at the rate of 2 Gbps. This new technology allows large amounts of data to be consolidated for quicker, more efficient access and management. Buy what you need now, add more later. The FAStT700 is a scalable storage server designed to allow you to build on your initial investment. Simply upgrade, not replace as your needs increase. The FAStT700 scales from 36 GB to 16 TB of storage using 22 FAStT EXP500 expansion enclosures. Each expansion enclosure supports up to 10 Fiber Channel disk drives. Moreover, you can select the appropriate RAID level (from RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10) to match an application or suit particular needs, helping you to extend and lever-age investments now and in the future.

Customer Reviews:

Doesn't come with a cable!.......2006-02-17

I'm sick and tired of spending over $32,000 (before shipping) for a piece of equipment for my laptop, only to find that immediately after UPS rolls the crates up to my front door, I have to jump in the car to go to the computer parts store and buy a $3.95 cable!

Other than that bit of frustration, this thing is ideal for me and my wife to scan recipes into for future use while cooking! I also like the array of blinking lights. They are cool. I kind of feel like I'm Spock at the console of the Starship Enterprise. I highly recommend it .. just make sure that you buy the cable before it arrives. Live long, and prosper.

sorry but.........2006-02-14

i really dont care what the heck it does, for 32,000, it must do dang near everything. it only stores data?!?!? i would pay $1000 dollars AT THE MOST for something like that. im sorry, waaaay to much.

A little expensive.......2005-10-31

Yeah that is my only gripe with this one.

At almost $30,000 I was expecting a mousepad to go with it but to my dismay I found out I had to shell another $2.60 to buy a matte-finish mousepad that will go well with its carbon-fibre casing. Well, you can't blame us average consumers if we sometimes expect to get our money's worth. Just imagine what I could buy with the $2.60 had they been considerate enough to ship it with one decent mousepad.

On a positive note, this little baby is a blast. It helped me a lot surfing the web for MP3s and typing my little brother's report on the migration of bird-flu viruses in Southeast Asia.

I rate this product only four stars out of a generous five.

Awesome for Research.......2005-10-13

My 14 year old son recently embarked on a gene sequencing project. His trials generated massive amounts of data, so much so that his laptop's 4.2gb hard drive became overwhelmed.

The product arrived flawlessly. Within an hour, my son's data was being transferred through multiple gigabit ethernet channels to the storage array.

So far, there has been only one attempted break-in to our apartment. My son insists on keeping his networking equipment and automatic sequencers near his 1st story window, which naturally has called attention. The first break in occurred while my son was momentarily in the kitchen. He heard shattering glass, and ran to his room. There, a masked man exclaimed, "Oh my God! Is that the new DS4400 FibreChannel RAID server!?" Before my son could reply, the intruder began opening HotSwap bays. Unfortunately, he failed to notice that we had ordered a 16TB model, and the top half of the rack remained empty. After the intruder realised his mistake, he jumped out the window from where he came.

All in all, however, this is a great server rack. My son hopes to enter the Westinghouse competition. My only other gripe is that this doesn't ship with a monitor: I think it's despicable that consumer PCs are advertised at low prices simply because they don't include monitors.

Great Storage.......2004-07-25

This is an amazing product! It arrived in excellent condition and has worked very well. I highly recommend it.

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