Finding it difficult to keep up with the growth in unstructured data? Looking for a cost-effective high capacity direct attach storage (DAS) option? The HP D6000 Disk Enclosure with 6 Gb/s with straight forward SAS architecture is ideal for direct attached storage for HP BladeSystem servers. You get the simplicity and cost effectiveness of DAS without sacrificing flexibility or performance. The 6 Gb/s SAS BL switches support up to six D6000 Disk Enclosures, for up to 1260TB of in-rack storage. Groups of drives are zoned directly to individual blade servers, appearing as local storage to that server allowing multiple servers to own HDD in an enclosure rather than being limited to one server seeing only one JBOD. With D6000 Disk Enclosure zoned direct attach capabilities; server administrators can build local storage on the fly according to their configuration requirements. Design: - Chassis type: Rack (5U) - Product colour: Black/Metallic Operational conditions: - Operating relative humidity (H-H): 10 - 90 - Operating temperature (T-T): 10 - 35 Other features: - Compatible operating systems: Windows Server 2003; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL); SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES); VMware ESX; Depending on host connectivity - Expansion description: Up to six; See QuickSpecs for detailed information - Insight manager support: Y - Storage drive controller: (4) Smart Array P721m/2GB FBWC; (4) Smart Array P731m; Supported - Tape or Disk Drives (range): (70) LFF MDL SAS; Supported Performance: - Device class: Small & Medium Business Ports & interfaces: - SAS host port: Yes Power: - AC input frequency: 47/63 - AC input voltage: 90-265 - Power supply unit (PSU) capacity: 940 Storage: - Maximum supported storage capacity: 8 - Number of storage drives supported: 70 - Storage drive interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) - Storage drives installed: No - Supported storage drive types: HDD & SSD Vendor information: - Brand Name: HP - Warranty: 1