{"id":107,"date":"2026-10-24T16:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.10.1.10\/wordpress\/index.php\/landings-ibm_storage-exp500\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:04:57","slug":"landings-ibm_storage-exp500","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/exp500.php","title":{"rendered":"EXP500 Expansion Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"isn-lp-hero\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"isn-lp-hero__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/images\/ibm_storage\/exp500.jpg\" alt=\"exp500 expansion array\"><\/p>\n<ul class=\"isn-lp-hero__points\">\n<li>Disk Drives<\/li>\n<li>Power Supplies<\/li>\n<li>Link Control Cards<\/li>\n<li>SFPs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"isn-lp-body\">\n<div class=\"isn-lp-main\">\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>The IBM EXP500 expansion enclosure allows you to add up to (10) 3.5&#8243; disk modules to your FAStT200, FAStT500, and FAStT600 (DS4300) storage servers. It is not recommended that you use the EXP500 with FAStT600 or higher DS4000 products as your FC loop will fall back to 1Gbps operation. <\/p>\n<p>The EXP500 accepts 1.6&#8243; FC disk modules and low profile 1&#8243; disk modules. Drive capacities range from 18GB to 300GB.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Low Profile Disk<\/td>\n<td>1.6&#8243; (Half Height) Disk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LowProfile_Disk\" height=\"195\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/images\/storagearrays\/exp710_drive.jpg\" width=\"115\"\/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"half_height_disk\" height=\"183\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/images\/ibm_storage\/half_height_disk.jpg\" width=\"151\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"isn-lp-side\">\n<section class=\"isn-lp-box\">\n<h3>Options<\/h3>\n<h4>Disk Drives<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/73P8005\">300GB 10K FC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/73P8022\">146GB 15K FC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/32P0765\">146GB 10K FC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/19K0654\">73GB 10K 1.6&#8243; FC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Drive Multi-Packs<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/22R5034\">4x 300GB 10K FC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/22R5033\">4x 146GB 15K FC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/22R5032\">4x 146GB 10K FC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/rfq.php\">Request a quote<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"isn-lp-box\">\n<h3>Documents<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/servermanuals\/exp500maintenance.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EXP500 Maintenance Guide<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/servermanuals\/exp500usersguide.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EXP500 User \/ Operation Guide<\/a> <br \/><\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk Drives Power Supplies Link Control Cards SFPs Overview The IBM EXP500 expansion enclosure allows you to add up to (10) 3.5&#8243; disk modules to your FAStT200, FAStT500, and FAStT600 (DS4300) storage servers. It is not recommended that you use the EXP500 with FAStT600 or higher DS4000 products as your FC loop will fall back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}