- Support for twelve 3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) or twenty-four 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives within a compact, 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure
- Dual port, hot-swappable 6 Gb SAS high-performance and high-capacity nearline drive options
- Enterprise-grade RAID technology and other advanced functions provided by IBM ServeRAID controllers
- Daisy-chain connection of multiple EXP2500 enclosures from a single ServeRAID controller port
The IBM 6100 are EXP2512 and EXP2524 Storage enclosures that enable flexible, low-cost storage capacity expansion of IBM System x servers to address growing storage needs.