Maxicom stocks a complete line of IBM storage products including DS4000 storage arrays, large capacity tape libraries and SAN switches. We can help you protect your mission critical data, while enjoying a significant savings.   Our customers have found they can expand their storage needs with proven products at prices much lower than manufacturer’s new costs. If you cannot find the IBM storage, you are looking for, please call one of our sales executives at a customer quote.

 IBM DS Storage Products

DS5300 (1818-53A)

 IBM storage controllers DS5300 model 53A. The DS5300 (1818-53A) is a 4U rack-mountable enclosure with support for 2048 LUNS. It also supports RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10.

DS4800 (1815-88A)

The IBM System Storage DS4800 disk storage system supports a high-performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface for increased host connectivity to deliver necessary bandwidth for high-throughput applications. 8 host ports-Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, 8 drive ports-Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, raid 0, 1, 3, 5, 10 .

DS3400 (1726-42X )

The DS3400 external storage enclosures are designed to be an easy, scalable, flexible, and affordable solution for System x and BladeCenter servers. The DS3400 is a 4Gb external Fibre Channel storage solution that is easy to deploy and manage. Available in single and dual controller models, the DS3400 scales in capacity to support a total of 48 hard disk drives by using the EXP3000 expansion unit.

DS5100 ( 1818-51A )

The DS5100 storage controller offers 8 GB cache and 8 x 4 Gbps fibre channel host interface cards. The DS5100 controllers can attach up to 16 EXP5000 expansion units, allowing up to 256 TB's physical storage capacity. 

DS4700 (1814)

. The 1814 Model 70A includes 2GB cache (1GB per controller), 4) Fibre channel host ports and 4) 4GBPS expansion ports. The 1814 Model 72A includes 4GB cache (2GB per controller), 8) Fibre channel 4GB per second host ports and 4) 4GB per second disk expansion ports.

DS3300 ( 172632X)

Two 1 Gbps iSCSI host connections per controller , One 3 Gbps SAS drive interface for capacity expansion per controller , Scalable to 3.6 TB of storage capacity with 300 GB hot-swappable SAS disks or 12.0 TB with 1.0 TB hot-swappable SATA disks in the first enclosure .

DS5000 (1818)

The IBM System Storage DS5000 series disk system is specifically designed to meet midrange/departmental storage requirements, delivering high performance, advanced function, high availability, and modular and scalable storage capacity. Features include: SAN-attached 4 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity,Support for RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10,8 GB or 16 GB modular cache memory blocks,Up to 256 TB physical storage capacity

DS4200 (1814)

he 1814-7VA DS4200 model 7V is a 3U enclosure with dual intelligent RAID controllers, 2 GB cache memory, four 4 Gbps fibre channel host ports, and redundant hot-swappable power supplies. 1814-7VH , 1814-7VA .

DS3200 (1726)

The DS3200 combines next-generation SAS technology with time-proven designs for external storage and intuitive management interface to create a fully-featured storage system ideally-suited for the SMB. 1726-21X , 1726-21E , 1726-22X , 1726-22E , 1726-22T , 1726-22B

DS4000 EXP810  (1812 -81A )

The IBM DS4000 EXP810 comes in a 19-inch rack mount package. The EXP810 storage expansion unit provides a 16-bay disk enclosure that attaches to the DS4000 . With a maximum of 4.8TB of physical capacity per expansion unit using 16 300GB disk drives

Legacy DS (Fast-T) Storage Products

IBM SAN Switches

SAN 32B-2

SAN32B-2 fabric switches. The B32 model is a 1U form factor that utilizes the first sixteen ports. (0-15) This switch also supports fibre channel connectivity to the RS/6000, AS/400 and Netfinity servers

SAN 32B-3

IBM TotalStorage SAN32B-3 fabric switches. The 2005-B5K model is a 1U rack mount fabric switch form factor that utilizes the first sixteen ports in the base. This model B5k supports forward and backward compatibility from 16-port to the 384-port

SAN 64B-2

 IBM 2005-64B-2 SAN switches. The SAN64B-2 is a 2U form factor that delivers a higher throughput and enhanced port density .

SAN 16B-2

IBM 2005 TotalStorage SAN16B-2 fabric switch offers ports on demand 8-, 12-, or 16 port increments. The SAN 16B-2 is 4Gbps FC switch capability in a 1U form factor

IBM Tape Solutions

 TS3500