• Avoid costly forklift upgrades. Migrate upward or downward within a series of products that offers extreme modularity from JBOD to high-performance RAID systems. With the StorageTek D173, you can re-use your storage asset to meet business requirements, department to enterprise.
  
• Simplify storage management. Conquer one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. SANtricity™ Storage Manager software makes it easy to manage storage because it gives you a single view of various subsystems, from a common GUI. SANtricity software also allows you to quickly set up storage, add capacity, configure changes and receive event notification - all non-disruptively.
  
• Lower your total cost of ownership with virtualization. Combine the host-level virtualization capabilities of StorageTek’s Application Storage Manager™ (ASM) software with D-Series products to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership. ASM integrates tape and disk into a seamless storage system, so you can manage data across a multi-tiered storage hierarchy.
  
• Prepare for SANs. The D173 disk subsystem includes fabric log-in support and full heterogeneous attach capabilities - valuable options that help you manage growth with fewer disruptions.
  
• Sustain continuous access. With a redundant dual active controller driver, superior performance tuning capability and hot-swappable components, you eliminate downtime and related costs.
  
• Obtain comprehensive professional services and support. Put StorageTek’s 32 years of storage expertise experience to work in your business. Obtain evaluation, recommendations and complete support from one source.

D173 SAN Subsystem datasheet
(pdf 106K, Jul 2002)
Product Limited Warranty
(pdf 12K, Dec 2001)
StorageTek Limited Warranty
(pdf 12K, Dec 2001)