{"id":111,"date":"2026-10-24T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.10.1.10\/wordpress\/index.php\/landings-ibm_storage-fasst200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:04:58","slug":"landings-ibm_storage-fasst200","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/fasst200.php","title":{"rendered":"FAStT200 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\/fasst200_rear.jpg\" alt=\"FASsT500\"><\/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 &amp; Optics<\/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 FAStT200 is 1Gbps Fibre Channel storage server. The FAStT200 is offered in two basic configurations:<\/p>\n<p>Standard Edition: Supports up to (2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/exp500.php\">EXP500<\/a> expansion enclosures (each with 10 drive bays) in addition to the (10) internal drive bays for an installation of (30) disk drives. Alternatively, (2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/exp700.php\">EXP700<\/a> enclosures may be used each offering (14) drive bays for the installation of (38) drives.<\/p>\n<p>HA (High Availability) Edition: Has two (redundant) RAID controllers with transparent failover support. The HA edition supports up to (66) disk modules when using the (10) internal drive bays and (4) fully populated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/exp700.php\">EXP700<\/a> enclosures.) When using (5) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/landings\/IBM_Storage\/exp500.php\">EXP500<\/a> enclosures and the (10) internal drive bays, 60 drives can be installed.<\/p>\n<p>The FAStT200 and EXP500 expansion arrays support low profile and half-height disk modules. The EXP700 expansion array only supports low-profile disk modules. <\/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<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"isn-lp-box\">\n<h3>Documents<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/servermanuals\/ibm_storagemanager_manual.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Storage Manager Manual<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/servermanuals\/ds4000_maintenance.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FAStT200 Maintenance Guide<\/a><\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk Drives Power Supplies Link Control Cards SFPs &amp; Optics Overview The IBM FAStT200 is 1Gbps Fibre Channel storage server. The FAStT200 is offered in two basic configurations: Standard Edition: Supports up to (2) EXP500 expansion enclosures (each with 10 drive bays) in addition to the (10) internal drive bays for an installation of (30) [&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-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","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=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istoragenetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}