User guide

Introduction
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Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 FC60SS Enclosure
Platform
The FC60SS Enclosure Platform is a 2U (rack space) disk drive enclosure, housing
twelve low profile (1 inch high), 3.5 inch form factor, which can be either:
– 3.0Gb/s direct dock SAS disk drives,
– 3.0Gb/s direct dock SATA disk drives, or
– 3.0Gb/s dual path SATA disk drives via an active/passive SATA mux transition card.
Important Mixing of SAS and SATA drives in the same enclosure is only supported in columns, i.e. Column
1 all SAS, Column 2 all SATA etc.
The system will provide up to 6Tbytes of data storage per enclosure when 500Gb drives are installed.
Figure 1–1 FC60SS Enclosure