Gigabyte: S451-3R0 36-Bay 3.5-Inch With 2-Bay 2.5-Inch 4U Storage Servers

Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. has released a choice in storage servers with a combination of performance, capacity and flexibility: the S451-3R0.

Powered by dual Xeon Scalable processors and with a capacity of 36×3.5”+2×2.5” SSD/HDD, the S451-3R0 provides a balance of throughput and density, making it for block or object storage, streaming media and big data.

Dual Xeon Scalable processors
The S451-3R0 features dual Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 28 cores per CPU, making it for storage applications where performance or heavy workloads are required. Each CPU socket supports CPU thermal design power requirement of 205W, as well as Intel Corp.‘s Omni-Path connection technology to eliminate CPU to network latency. Six memory channels per CPU with two DIMM slots per channel are supported for DDR4 memory. Maximum memory capacity will depend on CPU model with a maximum of 1.5TB per CPU.

S451-3R0 front and rear

Storage capacity and networking
The S451-3R0 features a capacity for 24×3.5” hot-swappable HDD/SSD in the front of the unit, and 12×3.5” as well as 2×2.5” hot-swappable HDD/SSD bays in the rear, which can be utilized by an OS boot device.

A storage adapter is not included by default, giving users the flexibility to choose their own storage solution; they may select from the company’s  latest storage adaptors (such as a HW or SW RAID card) or utilize their own legacy storage adaptor or RAID cards with the additional expansion slots available, which include 4xPCIe (Gen3 x 16) slots as well as 1xOCP (Gen3 x16) mezzanine slot. Networking wise, the S451-3R0 features dual 10Gb/s SFP+ LAN ports as standard, as well as an additional 2x1Gb/s LAN ports and a dedicated management LAN port.

S451-3R0 architecture

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Optimized for Software Defined Storage
The S451-3R0 is suited to implement a cost effective software-defined storage solution. Compared with traditional storage hardware systems that use proprietary IC hardware and software that have high initial investment costs and limited scalability, the x86 architecture of a server-based storage solution means interoperability with all major and well-known storage software and applications, making it easy to scale out and easy to deploy.

The company has also validated and created reference architectures for products with various open source software platforms such as Ceph and Hadoop, to help make your deployment faster and easier. In addition, the dual Xeon Scalable family processing power of the S451-3R0 makes it proficient in handling performance storage applications, such as for video streaming (for broadcast media or for CCTV) or as a storage component of a HPC system.

Configuration flexibility
A feature of the S451-3R0 is a chassis design using a standard E-ATX form factor motherboard. Therefore, users may choose to select an alternative motherboard solution instead (such as Intel Xeon D- or AMD EPYC-based solutions), customizing the product to suit their individual requirements.

Deployment and maintenance
The high availability and user features of the S451-3R0 such as easy-swap fans and hot-swap redundant power supply units, and tool-less drive bays and rail kits make it a reliable, easy to maintain storage system that can help lower enterprise’s OPEX costs.

The S451-3R0 makes a solution for enterprise’s storage requirements. The company continues to expand its server product family with flexible and versatile products to meet customer’s data center storage needs.