Accessories: Storage Expansion Options

Appro offers storage expansion accessories for the GreenBlade System enabling simple access to additional storage without any additional cables. Appro provides single and dual storage accessories delivering direct attached and shared storage within the GreenBlade System to include support for up to 4x 2.5" hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard disk drives. The GreenBlade backplane provides a PCI Express connection enabling high performance storage access without any additional cables.

The Appro GreenBlade storage expansion works side by side with the Appro GreenBlade server providing a simple and flexible additional storage for a variety of solutions from small environments to large datacenters.

Appro SXB100 - Single Storage Expansion
	SXB100 Specifications Storage expansion added to Intel Compute Blade Up to 2.0TB of storage capacity SATA/SAS HDDs per compute blade HDDs are hot-swappable HDDs directly connected to the Compute Blade via 4-port RAID card Supports RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10 5”(H) x 1.75”(W) x 25” (D) Each storage blade weighs ~14 lbs (~6.4kg)
	GreenBlade/SXB100 Subrack Configuration One Sub-Rack can support 5 blades with single SXB attachment Each node supports maximum 6 HDDs – 2x internal and 4x external

Appro SXB200 - Dual Storage Expansion
	SXB200 Specifications Storage expansion added to Intel Compute Blade Up to 4.0TB of storage capacity SATA/SAS HDDs per compute blade HDDs are hot-swappable HDDs directly connected to the Compute Blade via 8-port RAID card Supports RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10 5”(H) x 1.75”(W) x 25” (D) Each storage blade weighs ~28 lbs (~12.8kg)
	GreenBlade/SXB200 Subrack Configuration One Sub-Rack can support 3 blades with dual SXB attachment Each node supports maximum 10 HDDs – 2x internal and 8x external Space for one extra compute blade

If you are interested in configuring your GreenBlade system with the storage blade expansion, please fill out a quote request and our sales representative will be in contact with you.