Supermicro 60-and 90-Bay Top-Loading Storage Systems for High-Capacity Cloud-Scale Deployments

Super Micro Computer, Inc. extended its dense storage solutions with 60-bay and 90-bay solutions.

These high-capacity storage and expansion systems are optimised for cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage applications.

This top-loading architecture delivers the improved flexibility, modularity, and serviceability that customers need. Both 60-bay and 90-bay systems are available in single-node and dual-node configurations, where the drives evenly split between each node.

Also, the drives can be in a storage bridge bay (SBB) configuration for HA, in which both nodes have access to all the drives, and one node backups the other in case of a failure. With a modular, tool-less design, all key onboard systems – hot-swap server nodes, expanders, fan modules, power supplies, and drives – are optimised for serviceability by a single technician.

“Anticipating changing market dynamics and high growth in software-defined, cloud-based storage, Supermicro can help data centres to rapidly modernise their equipment to leverage flexible architectures, tool-less design modularity, and simple expansion capabilities,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO. “Our new high-capacity storage systems continue Supermicro’s focus on resource-saving and deliver industry-leading capacity per watt for a lower TCO and lower total cost to the environment.“

The company’s high-capacity top-loading systems are optimised for enterprise environments, and support scale-up and scale-out architectures. These 4U systems feature 60x or 90x hot-swap 2.5″/3.5″ SAS-3/SATA-3 bays plus 2x onboard PCI-E M.2 slots and 2x internal slim SATA SSD slots. The single-node system also supports 2x rear hot-swap 2.5″ bays for OS mirroring and optional 4x NVMe U.2 bays for fast caching. At maximum configuration, the system supports 1,440TB of cost-optimised storage. The single- and dual-node systems use 2nd gen Xeon Scalable processors in a dual-socket configuration with 16x DIMM slots per server node.

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