IBM DS3000 DS5100, DS5300, DS5020, DS3500, DS3200, DS3300, DS3400, FC, SAS, iSCSI connectivity

DS5100, DS5300

• FC, iSCSI connectivity

• (480) SSD, FC, SED, SATA d i

DS5020

•FC, iSCSI connectivity

•(112) FC SED (DS5020 only) SATA drives

DS3500

•FC, SAS, iSCSI connectivity

DS3200, DS3300, DS3400

•FC, SAS, iSCSI connectivity

•(48) SAS SATA drives

DS3400 DS3500

DS3500

Turbo

DS5020

DS5100

base

performance

DS5300

Burst I/O rate
cache reads	110,000	140,000	174,000	200,000	650,000	700,000
(IOPS)
Sustained I/O
rate	21,000	30,000	35,000	50,000	76,000	170,000
disk reads
Sustained I/O		7,500	11,000	9,500	20,000	38,000
rate	4,500
disk writes
	48	96	96	112	448	448
Drives			SAS-2 /			FC/SATA/FDE
	SAS-1	SAS-2 / NL-		FC/SATA/	FC/SATA/
			NL-SAS /			/SSD*
	/SATA	SAS / SED		FDE	FDE
			SED			(480) SATA*

DS3400 DS3500

DS3500

Turbo

DS5020

DS5100

base

performance

DS5300

Burst throughput
cache read	1,600	2,500	6,000	3,700	1,600	6,400
(MB/s)

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