Introduction
PixelStor 300e Hardware Installation Manual
Rev. 1, May 2013
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Table 1-4 Product Features
Chassis
2U rack-mounted chassis
SAS IO Modules
Support single or dual SAS IO Modules for SAS 2.0 connection
with the PixelStor 5000 RAID Array
Power
Support single 600W power supply module or 1+1 redundant
power supply module equipped with universal AC input that
includes PFC
Storage
Twelve hot-
pluggable 3.5” hard disk bays
Backplane
SATAII backplane for connecting 12x
3.5” Drive modules
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System Overview
The PixelStor 300e is low cost, high performance 2U/12 bay disk expansion enclosure for use
with a PixelStor 5000 RAID array system.
The PixelStor 300e can be populated with 12 hot plug SATAII hard disk drives. Up to 5 PixelStor
300e enclosures can be daisy chained to a PixelStor 5000. With the PixelStor 5000 holding 15
disks and each PixelStor 300e holding 12 disks; a fully loaded configuration can hold a total of
72 disk drives.
Each PixelStor 300e enclosure can be configured with one or two hot plug SAS I/O modules for
redundancy. Each I/O module on the PS300e comes with 2 24Gbs SAS (2.0) connectors for low
cost high performance connectivity with the PixelStor 5000 and additional PS300e enclosures.
The enclosure is also equipped with redundant power supplies, fans and a fully passive and
serviceable mid-plane.
