#Meaning DS Shelf and NS Shelf

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feral saffron
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Good evening all
I may have a silly question, but can anyone tell me what DS and NS stand for in relation to shelves? According to Google, DS stands for disk shelf and NS for NVMe shelf. Is this correct, or is it just Gemini's interpretation?

stray turret
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Yep, that's it. The DS shelves are SAS, and the NS shelves are NVMe

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Or, if you really want to go deeper, the DSxxxx shelves are SAS, and the DS14MK2 and DS14MK4 shelves are Fiber Channel. There were earlier shelves, but that was before my time.

cedar hawk
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and DE is for E-Series

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The model numbers also contain info -

i.e.

DS2246. - Disk Shelf 2U 24 drives 6GBs

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DS224c is 2U 24 drives 12GBs (12 = c in hex)

feral saffron
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Thank you for the explanation. I‘m currently writing a internal blog post for FAS vs C series and do not want to make a wrong statement 🙈 First I was thinking that DS means Direct Storage and NS network storage 😅

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Ah good to know about the c at the end

cedar hawk
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that is how they funtion technically 🙂

limber sequoia
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NetApp shelf naming method
DS4243
DS = Disk Shelf
4 = 4U size
24 = Number of Disks in the shelf
3 = IOM3

etc

half flame
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there's also the FS4483 (as FS4483NSM16E and FS4483PSM3E variants) but it's debatable whether that counts as a shelf or not 😉

mint gale
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(cough: DS4486)

livid flare