Supported Disk Drives - IBM V7000 Introduction And Implementation Manual

Figure 2-8 is a logical block diagram of the expansion canister.
Figure 2-8 Logical block diagram for control canister

2.5.3 Supported disk drives

Both the IBM Flex System V7000 Control Enclosure and the IBM Flex System V7000
Expansion Enclosure support up to 24 2.5 inch disk drives in their enclosures. Table 2-6
shows all the possible drive types that can be used in the internal enclosure drive slots at the
time of writing.
Table 2-6
Drive capacity
146 GB
300 GB
300 GB
600 GB
900 GB
1.2 TB
500 GB
1 TB
200 GB
400 GB
Note: Using the newly supported large drive 1.2 TB 10K RPM SAS drives instead of 900
GB 10K RPM SAS drives increases the maximum internal capacity by 33%, or increases it
by 20% if using 1.2 TB 10K RPM SAS drives instead of 1 TB NL SAS drives.
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Drive speed
15K RPM SAS
15K RPM SAS
10K RPM SAS
10K RPM SAS
10K RPM SAS
10K RPM SAS
7.2K RPM NL SAS
7.2K RPM NL SAS
SSD SAS
SSD SAS
Drive physical size
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch
2.5 inch