User's Guide

Chapter 1 DPM5500 System Description
DPM5500 System
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DPM5500 System 1
The system takes advantage of high speed hard drives to greatly reduce
the time required for backup/restore functions and also improve
confidence in completing the backup in the time allowed.
Table 1 DPM5500 Capacity
Specifications
DPM5500 System 1 The DPM5500 system houses the following components:
• Drive sleds (twelve, eighteen, or twenty four drive sleds per storage
array) (customer serviceable)
• Four redundant power supplies (customer serviceable)
• Redundant fan modules located at the back of the unit (customer
serviceable)
• Motherboard, CPU, and memory (not customer serviceable)
• RAID controllers (not customer serviceable)
The customer serviceable components are removed and replaced either
through the front/back of the system (see figure 1
).
DPM Model (with Drive Size) Raw Capacity
DPM5500 (400 GB drives) 4.8 TB to 9.6 TB