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Nexsan E5000 Tech Specs

Category Feature Nexsan E5110 Nexsan E5310 Nexsan E5510
Storage Capacities Minimum capacity 8TB 9TB 9TB
Maximum capacity 62TB 720TB 1080TB
Maximum number of drives in chassis 15 0 0
Maximum number of drives w/ expansion chassis 31 240 360
Minimum number of drives 8 9 9
Rack space required for 60 drives (U) N/A 7 7
Density (drives per U with no expansion chassis) 5 13 13
SATA or NL-SAS 7200RPM drives (TB) 1/2 1/2/3 1/2/3
SAS 15K RPM drives (GB) 450/600 450/600 450/600
SSD drives (GB) N/A 100/200/400 100/200/400
Mix drive types in chassis NO YES YES
Storage Controller Base / maximum controllers per system 1/2 2/2 2/2
Base / maximum number of CPU cores per controller 4/4 4/8 12/12
Base / maximum system memory per controller 12/12 24/48 48/96
RAID Levels 5,6,10 5,6,10 5,6,10
FASTier™ FASTier™ Package Contents (1) 100GB SLC SSD (1) 8GB DRAM / SSD & (2) 100GB SLC SSDs (1) 8GB DRAM in SSD & (3) 200GB SLC SSDs
Number of drive slots required for the FASTier™ Package 1 3 4
Maximum number of FASTier™ Packages per system 1 3 4
Maximum FASTier™ dedicated high speed flashbacked DRAM write cache in SSDs per system N/A 24GB 32GB
FASTier™ Expansion Package Contents N/A (2) 100GB SLC SSDs (2) 200GB SLC SSDs
Base / Maximum FASTier™ cache size 0/100GB 0/1.5TB 0/3TB
I/O Ports Base / maximum 1Gb Ethernet ports per controller 2/6 2/6 2/6
Base / maximum 10Gb Ethernet ports per controller 0/2 0/2 0/2
Dedicated/available Ethernet management ports per controller 0/2 0/2 0/2
Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) YES YES YES
Base / maximum # of SASx4 ports (24Gb each) for drive expansion per controller 1 0 0
Base / maximum # of 8Gb Fibre Channel ports for drive expansion per controller N/A 2/4 2/6
High Availability Dual Redundant storage controllers with automatic failover Opt. YES YES
No single point-of-failure architecture Opt. YES YES
Rails & Cables Mounting Rails and SAS / FC Cables Included YES YES YES
NAS Services Capacities Number of NAS heads in cluster base/maximum 1/2 2/2 2/2
Maximum file size (TB) 16 16 16
Maximum number of CIFS shares per controller 512 512 512
Maximum number of NFS shares per controller 512 512 512
Maximum file name length (bytes) 255 255 255
Maximum number of snapshots per share 2048 2048 2048
Management software included at no additional cost YES YES YES
Power & Cooling Standard number of power supplies 2 2 2
Power supplies are hot-swappable Y Y Y
Wattage per Controller 400 420 480
Voltage and Frequency 100-240V 50-60Hz 100-240V 50-60Hz 100-240V 50-60Hz
E5000 Main Chassis Heat Dissipation (BTU per hour) 2750 2900 3350
Typical power consumption for 60 drives N/A 1275 1325
AutoMAID® power savings N Y Y
Size, Weight and Operating Conditions Operating Temperature 10-35C (50-95F) 10-35C (50-95F) 10-35C (50-95F)
Operating Humidity 20-95% Non Condensing 20-95% Non Condensing 20-95% Non Condensing
E5000 Main Chassis Height (U of rack space) 5.2 in / 13.2 cm (3U) 5.2 in / 13.2 cm (3U) 5.2 in / 13.2 cm (3U))
E5000 Main Chassis Width 17.2 in / 43.7 cm 17.2 in / 43.7 cm 17.2 in / 43.7 cm
E5000 Main Chassis Depth 24.2 in / 61.5 cm 24.2 in / 61.5 cm 24.2 in / 61.5 cm
E5000 Main Chassis Weight 84 lbs / 38.1 Kg 68 lbs / 30.1 Kg 70 lbs / 31.8 Kg