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IBM Power 750 and 760 Technical Overview and Introduction
Figure 1-5 shows the front view of the FC 5802 12X I/O drawer.
Figure 1-5 The front view of the FC 5802 I/O drawer
1.7.2 EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O drawer
The enhanced EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer (FC EDR1) provides the IBM Power 750 and
Power 760 up to 30 solid-state drives (SSD) in only 1U of rack space. The drawer provides up
to 480,000 IOPS and up to 11.6 TB of capacity for AIX or Linux clients. Plus, up to 48
additional hard disk drives (HDDs) can be directly attached to the Ultra Drawer (still without
using any PCIe slots) providing up to 43.2 TB additional capacity in only 4U additional rack
space for AIX clients. This ultra-dense SSD option is similar to the Ultra Drawer (FC 5888),
which remains available to the Power 710, 720, 730, and 740. The EXP30 attaches to the
Power 750 or Power 760 server with a GX++ adapter, FC 1914.
Figure 1-6 shows the EXP30 I/O drawer.
Figure 1-6 EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer
1.7.3 EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay drawer
The EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer (FC 5887) is an expansion drawer that supports up to
24 2.5-inch hot-swap SFF SAS HDDs in 2U of 19-inch rack space. The EXP24S bays are
controlled by SAS adapters or controllers attached to the I/O drawer by SAS X or Y cables.
The SFF bays of the EXP24S are different from the SFF bays of the POWER7 and
system units or 12X PCIe I/O drawers (FC 5802). The EXP24S uses Gen2 or
SFF-2 SAS drives that physically do not fit in the Gen1 or SFF-1 bays of the POWER7 and
system unit or 12X PCIe I/O Drawers.
