Highlights
- A simple, affordable, easy-to-deploy storage expansion solution.
- Use one E1024 as a stand-alone JBOD, or daisy chain up to 7 more per HBA ports (8 total). This provides access for up to 192 HDDs or SSDs per array.
- Each E1024 contains 24 hot-swap 2.5-inch bays, supporting HDDs and SSDs.
- Available drives include enterprise-class 15,000rpm and 10,000rpm SAS HDDs, high-capacity nearline (NL) 7,200rpm SAS HDDs, secure nearline SAS self-encrypting drives (SEDs), and read-intensive SAS SSDs.
- Standard models include dual SAS I/O modules. Each module includes two 6Gb SAS ports (IN and OUT)—four total per enclosure. Using only two ports enables an enclosure to be daisy-chained to the ones before and after it. Using all four ports enables high availability.
- Custom models are available with a single SAS I/O module, expandable to two.
- Integrates seamlessly with Lenovo ThinkServer and System x servers.
- An effective storage solution for workloads such as data backup, data caching, video surveillance, media streaming, email hosting, server virtualization, file management, and print serving.
- Ideal for cost-sensitive customers, space-constrained environments, current and future high-capacity needs, and server/storage virtualization. It reduces the burden on overutilized internal server storage, and offers extreme capacity for archive and cold storage solutions.
- Shares common parts with the E1024 DAS unit, as well as the Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 SAN storage units.
Flexible, High-Performance DAS
The Lenovo Storage E1024 has the flexibility and capacity to handle many different types of workloads. You can start with one E1024 enclosure as a simple JBOD, and later daisy-chain up to 7 more on a single HBA port. This provides support for up to 192 hot-swap SAS drives per array.
Supported drives include 15,000rpm, 10,000rpm, and 7,200rpm HDDs, secure self-encrypting HDDs (SEDs), and SSDs for read-intensive workloads. The E1024 supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, 6, and 60, using a variety of RAID HBAs. A single daisy chain of E1024 units can contain a combination of HDDs and SSDs, with different speeds and capacities. Moreover, if high-capacity 3.5-inch HDDs are required, E1012 expansion units may be included in the daisy chain.
Cost-Effective
The E1024 is optimized for price performance. 15,000rpm and 10,000rpm SAS drives offer the speed needed for most performance-intensive workloads. High-capacity, high-performance SSDs provide the extreme throughput necessary for the most read-intensive jobs, with up to 38.4TB in only 2U and as much as 307.2TB per array in 16U. 7,200rpm NL drives offer up to 24TB of “cold” or archive storage per enclosure.
The E1024 shares common parts with E1012 DAS enclosures, as well as S2200 and S3200 SAN storage units. This simplifies servicing and reduces spare parts on hand, helping to reduce costs further. You can also save money on file/storage servers, by deploying one server running virtualized environments with up to 302.7TB of DAS capacity, rather than using multiple servers with one JBOD apiece. In addition, custom models offer the choice of a single expansion module, to lower cost and provide optional upgrade capability later.
Easy to Deploy and Highly Available
Designed with simplicity in mind, the E1024 offers easy daisy-chaining of additional enclosures—with failover capability. Simply cable-connect new units and they come online immediately (OS-dependent). Virtual machines can share these expansion chassis, as well.
And because storage is useless when it’s offline, the E1024 uses ruggedized components that are designed for 99.999% availability, along with hot-swap drives, power supplies, fans, and I/O modules for both ease of use and maximum uptime.
