A 4U high-density JBOD chassis for backup, cold-tier, and object stores. Up to 108 drives per chassis with dual-path SAS4 expanders and validated thermals to 40°C — engineered for GCC-scale data platforms.
A top-load drive plane makes population and replacement predictable at scale. Front-serviced power, fans, and expanders keep hot-aisle work off the cold aisle.
Two independent expander cards feed every drive. A failed expander path is not a failed chassis.
Optional gateway module exposes the chassis as an NVMe-over-Fabrics target for warm-tier workloads that outgrew object storage.
Certified 40°C intake fully loaded with 24 TB drives — including the failed-fan derating case documented in the ops bible.
Configurable options are marked red. Contact engineering for special-order variants.
| Form Factor | 4U · 1000mm depth · top-load |
|---|---|
| Weight | 142 kg (fully populated, 24 TB HDDs) |
| Drive Bays | 108× 3.5" · hot-swap · toolless |
| Max Raw Capacity | 2.6 PB · with 24 TB SAS4 |
| Drive Support | SAS4 24Gb · SATA · NVMe (rear cage) |
| Expanders | 2× SAS4 24Gb · dual-path |
|---|---|
| SAS Uplinks | 8× SAS4 x4 · 96 Gb per uplink |
| NVMe-oF Gateway | Optional · 8× 200GbE |
| Management | Dedicated 1GbE BMC · SES-4 |
| Drive Access | Top plane · toolless caddies |
|---|---|
| Power | 2N redundant · front-serviced |
| Fans | 6× hot-swap counter-rotating · front |
| LEDs | Per-drive activity + fault |
| PSU | 2× 3000W Titanium redundant |
|---|---|
| Input | 200–240V AC · 380V DC |
| Cooling | Front intake · 40°C certified |
The default cold-tier for banking, government and enterprise backup fabrics.
Ceph, MinIO, and S3-compatible object stores at PB scale.
Long-tail broadcast archives across regional media companies.
Warm-tier for training datasets, paired with AI8-HPC compute nodes.
BFSI and government workloads with multi-year retention mandates.
Sequencing archives for regional research institutions.