{"id":108,"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-exp700\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:04:57","slug":"landings-ibm_storage-exp700","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/exp700.php","title":{"rendered":"EXP700 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\/exp700_rear.jpg\" alt=\"exp710\"><\/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 EXP700 expansion enclosure allows you to add up to (14) 3.5&#8243; disk modules to your DS4300 (FAStT600), DS4400, and DS4500 storage servers. <\/p>\n<p>The EXP700 operates at 2Gbps with the above controllers. It will auto-negotiate to 1Gbps mode when placed in a loop consisting of EXP500 enclosures and legacy FAStT200 and FAStT500 storage servers.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Server<\/td>\n<td>RAID Controllers<\/td>\n<td> EXP700 Enclosures<\/td>\n<td>Max Number of Disks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FAStT500<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>112<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DS4400<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>112<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FAStT500<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FAStT200<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FAStT200<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\">Values above are attained by using Storage Manager 8.0 or later, using all internal storage server drive bays, and replacing all 10-Bay EXP500 arrays with 14 Bay EXP700 arrays. <\/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>EX700 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<\/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<\/ul>\n<h4>Expansion Shelves<\/h4>\n<ul>\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\/exp700_manual.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EXP700 User &amp; Installation 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 EXP700 expansion enclosure allows you to add up to (14) 3.5&#8243; disk modules to your DS4300 (FAStT600), DS4400, and DS4500 storage servers. The EXP700 operates at 2Gbps with the above controllers. It will auto-negotiate to 1Gbps mode when placed in a loop consisting of [&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-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","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=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}