eRacks/NAS24 Upgraded With 8TB Seagate Archive HDDs

eRacks Open Source Systems announced its storage-density upgrade of its eRacks/NAS24 rackmount storage server – new 8TB Archive drives allow price-breakthrough $/density of nearly 200TB for well under $20,000.

It combines a rack usage of only with a density of 24 drives, which, when combined with the current technology of widely available 8TB drives, yields a total storage of up to 192TB.

For this affordable price-point, Seagate Archive HDDs for cloud storage/near-line storage are utilized. (enterprise 8TB Helium filled drives are available at additional cost, and are also very miserly on power and quite ‘Green’.) Industry’s high-capacity HDD designed for cost-effectively storing active archive data and cloud content. Here are some technical specifications.

Specifications:

High-density 8TB HDDs for petabytes of affordable and accessible long-term online storage.
Enables significant system-level TCO savings with best cost-per-terabyte
Maximum storage efficiency with lowest watts-per-terabyte
Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on SMR technology
RV-balanced for high density environments
The eRacks/NAS24 is a cloud or NAS storage server, available with OpenStack, OpenAttic, or any variety of cloud, SDS (Software-Defined Storage), or NAS software. This model has been upgraded to include multicore E5 V2 and V3 Haswell and IvyBridge CPUs in either single or dual-processor configurations. Quad-socket and even higher-end configurations are available, including AMD Opteron.

Configuration includes:

Chassis: NAS4U 24RHD 1200W RPS 26″ depth
Motherboard: dual Xeon E5-2600 v2/v3 IPMI motherboard
CPU: Xeon E5-2609 v3 (15M Cache, 1.90GHz)
Memory: 4GB DDR4 Memory (2133/2400/2666)
HDDs: Archive 5-8TB 3.5″ SATA-6 5,900rpm SMR HDD
RAID card: RAID-6 (striped with dual parity)
OS: 2xSSD 120GB Samsung 840 or 850 EVO or better, mirrored

“We are delighted to be able to make this affordable new 200TB-class upgrade available, enabled by the new higher-density 8TB Archive drives that are now readily available. This makes our great open source cloud server solutions more accessible to a wider audience at this price-point,” said Joseph Wolff, founder and CTO, eRacks.