Owners Manual

Technical Specifications

Drives

SAS hard drives Up to 84 3.5-inch SAS hot‑swappable hard drives (6.0 Gbps)

Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) Modules

SBBs Two hot-swappable EMM IO modules

Connectivity

Configurations

Storage Center supports up to 168 drives in each redundant-path

enclosure chain

Each SC8000 controller supports up to 6 enclosure chains

NOTE: Only up to two SC280s are supported because

Storage Center’s drive limitation takes precedence over

the SC8000’s enclosure supportability

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)

Controller Dell Compellent SC8000

Management RAID management using Storage Center System Manager version

6.4.1 or later

Back-Plane Board

Connectors

• 84 SAS hard-drive connectors

• Two sets of SBB connectors

• Five cooling fan module connectors

• Two power supply connectors

Back-Panel Connectors (per SBB)

SAS connectors

• Asymmetric SAS Cabling for connection to the controller and

for expansion to an additional enclosure

• Support Mini-SAS HD to Mini-SAS cable universally keyed for

the following lengths that are currently supported:

Controller to SC280:

• 0.5 m

• 2 m

• 3 m

• 5 m

SC280 to SC280:

• 0.6 m

• 2 m

• 4 m

• 6 m

NOTE: SAS connectors are SFF‑8086/SFF-8088

compliant

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