U.2 NVMe All Flash Scale Out NAS From PAC Storage

PAC Storage (Pacific Alliance Capital), an affiliate company of Boxx Technologies, has added the Scale Out NAS product line: All flash NVMe Scale Out NAS.

This NVMe solution excels in performance-demanding requirements for high throughput and low latency workloads from M&E and HPC, to big data and more.

“PAC continues to bring new product technologies that are viable for our clients ever-changing application needs,” said Rick Crane, CEO. “Our new All flash NVMe Scale Out can reach 20GB/s throughput on a 5-node cluster. This extreme I/O throughput is offered at a reasonable price so organizations can rely on PAC for next gen technology in SAN/NAS storage solutions.“

The PAC Scale Out NVMe NAS storage is purpose-built to optimize scalability and performance simultaneously by adding more nodes. Each node of the NVMe Scale-Out can be installed with 14 U.2 SSDs, bringing 4.1GB/s read and 3.1GB/s write per node throughput. This configuration also provides data protection and HA to avoid data loss and system downtime caused by disk damage or system failures.

Also new is the Scale Out auto-tiering function which offers a cost-effective solution for users who prefer a mix of SSD and HDD. This feature automatically allocates data, including ‘hot data’ accessed, which is most often stored in the SSD tier for speed. The auto-tiering function also allocates ‘cold data’ rarely accessed to reside in the HDD tier, thereby optimizing capacity usage for saving costs.

The company’s system provides intelligent drive management and real-time SSD monitoring to predict the number of days left for usage. When an SSD is approaching its end-of-life, the system notifies users to timely replace the flash device. Using a set of smart algorithms, firm’s system optimizes data to prolong the its service life while preventing simultaneous damage of multiple SSDs.

In addition to All flash NVMe Scale Out NAS, the company was recently selected as one of the 20 Most Promising storage Solution Providers 2021 and Top 10 M&E Solution Companies 2021 by CIO Review magazine.

Form Factor:	2U 14-bay
Controller:	Single controller per node
CPU:	Intel Skylake-D (Xeon-D) 12-Core
Number of Nodes:	3-144
Network Types Combinations:	Combination 1: Onboard 2x10Gb/s (front-end) + Onboard 2x10Gb/s (internal)
	Combination 2: Onboard 4x10Gb/s (Front-end) + Host Board 2x25Gb/s (internal)
	Combination 3: Onboard 4x10Gb/s (Front-end) + Host Board 2x40Gb/s (internal)
	Combination 4: Host Board 2x40Gb/s (Front-end) + Host Board 2x40Gb/s (internal)
	Combination 5: Host Board 2x25Gb/s (Front-end) + Host Board 2x25Gb/s (internal)
Max Number Host Ports per node:	12
Cache Memory:	64GB upgradeable to 256GB
Max SSD Cache Pool:	3.2TB
Cache Backup Techniques:	Super capacitor+flash module
Maximum Number of Drives (per node):	2U 14-bay: 74
Drive Connectivity:	PCIe
Drive Advanced Features:	S.M.A.R.T. support/ Automatic bad-sector reassignment/ Dedicated bandwidth to each connected drive
Supported Drives:	2.5″ NVMe SSD
Protocol Support:	File Level Protocol: CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP

Cloud Gateway:	Available Integration with public and/or private cloud
Data Protection:	Data protection:
	Distributed
	Node protection: Erasure code (2+1 or 4+1 or 4+2 or 8+1 or 8+2)
	Replica (x2, x3)
	File-level remote replication (Rsync)
	Data service
	SED (Self-encrypting drives)
RAID Functionality:	Global, dedicated or enclosure hot-spare
RAID Functionality:	RAID levels supported : RAID-5, -6
Availability and Reliability:	Self-healing design
Availability and Reliability:	WORM
Notification:	Event notification methods including email and SNMP trap.
Management:	Web-based management software and module status LED indicators
	Pool and RAID management
	Storage Resource Management to analyze history records
OS Support:	Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2/2016 (including Hyper-V), Windows 7 SP1/Windows 8.1, RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X, VMware, Citrix XenServer