Supermicro Ships 4U 72×3.5-Inch Hot-Swappable HDD Storage System

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is shipping a scale-out object storage solution based on the high capacity double-sided storage server SSG-6047R-E1R72L featuring 72×3.5" hot-swappable HDDs plus 2×2.5" hot-swappable HDDs, supporting up to 288TB using 4TB enterprise drives.

With 10GB/sec throughput, this mass storage server has the capacity and bandwidth to support extreme levels of concurrent data access and unified storage protocols. Supermicro offers complete solutions to support scale-out storage applications.

This high density 4U solution reduces capital costs of typical storage solutions with similar capacity up to 50% and reduces power consumption up to 60%. Its space saving design also provides up to 18xHDDs per U increasing rack density and operational efficiency. In addition, this capacity storage server features easy access, hot-swap HDDs for serviceability and availability.

"Supermicro customers are demanding higher capacity storage solutions with total data security and integrity," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "We’ve answered their call with our new scale-out object storage solution that empowers the latest cloud storage applications. These systems are application-optimized for maximum performance, density, power efficiency, scalability and reliability to deliver exactly the best storage platform for our customers’ most challenging data requirements."

SSG-6047R-E1R72L Specs

• 4U high capacity double-sided storage chassis
• 72×3.5" SAS-2 or SATA-3 HDDs with 6Gb/s in 36xhot-swap drive bays
• Dual Xeon processor E5-2600 (up to 135W) support
• Up to 512GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC Reg. memory in 16xDIMM sockets
• 3xLSI 2308 IT mode controllers (24x lanes of 6Gbps SAS)
• 2×2.5" internal fixed HDDs/SSDs for OS/applications
• Optional 2×2.5" rear hot-swappable HDDs/SSDs for OS/applications
• 4x available PCI-E 3.0 x8 expansion slots (optional SAS HBA for additional JBOD expansion, 10G, 40G LAN and 56Gb/s FDR IB card)
• Quad Port Gigabit LAN (optional 10G and 40G LAN)
• IPMI 2.0 (dedicated LAN) with Virtual Media/KVM over LAN
• 2000W (1+1), Platinum Level, high efficiency (95%) digital switching power supplies
• Optional battery backup power module
• Target applications: NAS and SAN applications, scale-out platforms such as Openstack Swift, archival storage, compliance storage and media storage