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The new firmware for the DS4000-series (DS4200, DS4700 & DS4800) has been released! This is great news because many current limits for several features have been upgraded. Some customers have been waiting a long while for this update, take a good look at the release notes before upgrading. 

• Support for greater than 2TB Logical Drive.
• Support for RAID 0 and 1 arrays with more than 30 drives.
• Increase maximum number of partitions.
• DS4200 and DS4700 will support 512 and DS4800 will support 2048.
• Increase to 16 snapshots per logical drive for DS4800.
• Snapshot recreate process improvement.
• Support RedHat v5.0 and SLES10 SP1.
• Increase number of mirrors supported. Increase the number of mirrors supported on DS4800 from 64 to 128 and on DS4200/DS4700 from 32 to 64.
• Increase # of Flashcopies on DS4200/DS4700/DS4800. Increase the number of Flashcopies per logical drive to 8 for DS4200/DS4700 and 16 for DS4800.
• Increase # of Remote Volume Mirrors on DS4200/DS4700/DS4800. Increase the number of RVM mirrors allowed to 64 mirrors for the DS4200/DS4700 and 128 mirrors for the DS4800.