The 24 TB usable storage capacity drive configuration includes two operating system boot disk drives, one SSD for cache tier, two 12 TB disk drives for internal system storage, and eight 12 TB disk drives for customer storage capacity.
Filler - If you increase the capacity of the DM5500 to more than 24 TB usable capacity, a 3.84 TB cache SSD is required in slot 3.
Drive 4
12 TB hard drive - internal storage
Drive 5
12 TB hard drive - internal storage
Drives 6 - 13
12 TB hard drive
Drives 14 - 23
Filler - drives 14-23 are 12 TB storage expansion slots that may be used as needed after the initial purchase of the 24 TB usable capacity DM5500 drive configuration. You can add 12 TB drives in these 10 slots as needed up to a total maximum of 96 TB usable capacity.
The 96 TB usable storage capacity drive configuration includes two operating system boot disk drives, two SSDs for cache tier, two 12 TB disk drives for internal system storage, and 18 12 TB disk drives for customer storage capacity.
3.84 TB cache SSD - internal cache for Protection Storage metadata. Required for DM5500 configurations of 24 TB capacity or more.
Drive 4
12 TB hard drive - internal storage
Drive 5
12 TB hard drive - internal storage
Drive 6-23
12 TB hard drive
You can add one, two, or three expansion enclosures to a fully populated 96 TB 2U DM5500 server. The DM5500 expansion enclosure configuration storage capacities are described in the following table. Note that each expansion enclosure ships fully populated, and you can use the storage capacity for which you are licensed. For example, if you have a DM5500 configuration with one expansion enclosure, even though the maximum usable capacity is 144 TB, you could purchase a license for 108 TB and expand to the maximum 144 TB in increments of 12 TB.
Table 1. Storage capacity for DM5500 expansion enclosure configurationsThis table lists the storage capacities for the DM5500 expansion enclosure configurations.