The IBM DS8000 series (early IBM System Storage DS8000 series) is an IBM storage media platform with hybrid flash and hard disk storage for

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and other enterprise grade computing environments.

Description

This series formerly designed as line of cabinet-size solutions, prior to more compact and affordable rack-mount DS6000 series. In 2015 the DS6000 line were discontinued, and the all-flash entry-level DS8882F model was released as rack-mount successor of DS6000 line. All IBM DS storage lines based on a IBM Power CPUs and use an

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servers as controllers.

Models

* TotalStorage models: ** DS8100 - released in 2004 *** Dual 2-core POWER5+-based controllers *** Can contain up to 384 drives (

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) ** DS8300 - released in 2004 *** Dual 4-core POWER5+-based controllers (based on p570 servers) *** Can contain up to 1024 drives (Fibre Channel or SATA) * System Storage models: **DS8100 Turbo - released in 2006 **DS8300 Turbo - released in 2006 **DS8700 - released in 2009 *** Dual 2- or 4-core

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-based controllers *** Can contain up to 1024 drives (3.5” 15K RPM Fibre Channel HDD or enterprise flash drives) ** DS8800 - released in 2010 *** Dual 2- or 4-core POWER6+-based controllers *** Can contain up to 1536 drives (2.5": 10K or 15K RPM HDD or SSD enterprise flash SAS-2 drives, or 3.5": Nearline-SAS drives) ** DS8870 - released in 2012 *** Dual 2-, 4-, 8- or 16-core

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-based controllers (Since December 2013 based on POWER7+) **** Running SMT-4 for 64 threads *** 1 TiB Cache *** Can contain up to 1536 drives (2.5": 10K or 15K RPM HDD or enterprise flash SAS-2, or 3.5": Nearline-SAS drives) + 120 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE) *** High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8870 (High-performance flash enclosure fits into existing DS8870 bay) **** Up to 8 Flash Enclosures per System : 96 TB raw per system ** DS8880 Family - released in end of 2015; base models with mixed storage (DS8884 and DS8886) and all-flash solutions (DS888#F). *** DS8882F - all-flash version for rack-mounting (17U, 16U without KVM) *** DS8884 **** Dual 6-core

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-based controllers ***** Running SMT-4 for 24 threads **** Up to 256

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Cache **** Can contain up to 783 HDD or SSD drives + 120 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE) ***** 2.5" 10K or 15K RPM drives and enterprise flash SAS-2 drives ***** 3.5" Nearline-SAS drives **** High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8884F (Flash enclosure can fits into existing DS8870 bay) ***** Up to 4 Flash Enclosures per System : 48 TB raw per system *** DS8886 **** Dual 8- to 24-core

-based controllers ***** Running SMT-4 for 96 threads **** Up to 2 TiB Cache **** Can contain up to 1536 HDD or SSD drives + 240 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE) ***** 2.5" 10K or 15K RPM drives and enterprise flash SAS-2 drives ***** 3.5" Nearline-SAS drives **** High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8886F ***** Up to 8 Flash Enclosures per System : 96 TB raw per system *** DS8888F **** Dual 48-core

-based controllers ***** Running SMT-4 for 192 threads **** Up to 2 TiB Cache **** High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8888F ***** Can contain up to 480 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE) ***** Up to 16 Flash Enclosures per System : 192 TB raw per system * DS89#0F - released in 2020 **IBM DS8910Fhttps://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5566.pdf - Rack-mounting (20U, 19U without KVM) ***based on a dual

S922, S914, or S924 controllers **IBM DS8950F ***42U assembled rack cabinet

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