Lenovo D1212 Product Manual

Lenovo Storage D1212 and D1224 Drive Enclosures

Product Guide

The Lenovo Storage D1212 and D1224 Disk Expansion Enclosures offer 12 Gbps SAS direct-

attached storage expansion capabilities that are designed to provide simplicity, speed, scalability, security,

and high availability for small to large businesses. The D1212 and D1224 deliver enterprise-class storage

technology in a cost-effective solution with flexible drive configurations and RAID or JBOD (non-RAID) host

connectivity.

The D1212 and D1224 expansion units are designed for a wide range of workloads, including big data and

analytics, video surveillance, media streaming, private clouds, file and print serving, e-mail and

collaboration, and databases. They also well-suited for software defined storage (SDS) and Windows

Server solutions with Storage Spaces.

Figure 1. Lenovo Storage D1212 and D1224 Disk Expansion Enclosures

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The D1212 and D1224 expansion enclosures offer flexible drive configurations with the choice of 2.5-inch

and 3.5-inch drive form factors, 10K or 15K rpm SAS and 7.2K rpm NL SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) and

self-encrypting drives (SEDs), and SAS solid-state drives (SSDs).

With support for daisy chaining, the D1212 can be scaled up to 960 TB for capacity-optimized

configurations with HDDs, and the D1224 can be scaled up to 192 drives for performance-optimized

configurations.

The D1212 and D1224 expansion units support 12 Gbps SAS connectivity, which doubles the data

transfer rate compared to 6 Gb SAS solutions to maximize performance of storage I/O-intensive

applications.

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Lenovo Storage D1212 and D1224 Drive Enclosures

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