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IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit — End-of-Life & EOSL Dates

IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit enterprise hardware. End-of-support (last date of support / EOSL) date from IBM's Product Lifecycle, linked to the IBM lifecycle page for verification. IBM publishes an end-of-support date but no separate end-of-sale date in this feed.

Is the IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit end of life?

Past end of service
10/100
High exposure
EOSL Exposure Score

Every tracked IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit SKU group is past IBM end of service life (last group Mar 2016). Units in production should be treated as unsupported. For past-EOSL units, weigh third-party maintenance, spares, replacement, or a documented run-to-failure.

Why this score
  • Past end of service life — 124 months ago
  • Vendor-published date, source-linked
  • Category: enterprise hardware

The score reflects support-lifecycle timing and source confidence only — it is not a risk, safety or compliance rating. How it’s calculated →

Action priority
Critical
Past end of service life — unsupported by the vendor.
End of service life
Mar 2016
Part numbers
1
Confidence
Vendor-published date
Last verified
Jul 2026
Source
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1727-01X

EOSL — PAST
124 mo
past end of service
now
availableend of saleservice
AvailableJun 1986
End of saleNot published
End of serviceMar 2016IBM bulletin ↗

Options from here

Unsupported now

The IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit is past IBM end of service life. These are the paths teams take from here:

Third-party maintenance

Keep it in production past the OEM cutoff with an independent maintainer.

Pre-stock spares

Buy spares now, while units still circulate on the secondary market.

Plan replacement

It is unsupported today — set a migration timeline and budget.

Run to failure

Low-criticality role — document the risk, harden backups, retire on your terms.

Independent and informational — EOSL.ai sells no hardware or maintenance and lists no paid placements. Third-party maintenance keeps unsupported gear in production past the OEM cutoff; whether it fits depends on the asset's role.

IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit — questions

Is the IBM System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit end of life?

Yes — every tracked System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit SKU group is past its last date of support.

What is the last date of support for the System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit?

Mar 2016 — per the IBM end-of-sale bulletin.

Where do these System Storage EXP3000 Expansion Unit dates come from?

Every end-of-sale and end-of-service-life date on this page links to the official IBM end-of-sale bulletin it was taken from.

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