Supermicro New Zealand
Storage Chassis Introduction
Storage Chassis Introduction
31 March 2010
Supermicro recently launched the world's first 4U Double-Sided Storage chassis which enables extra high-density storage. The SC847 series server chassis features 36 hot-swap 3.5" HDD trays with 24 in the front and 12 in the rear. For disk-only configurations (see JBOD picture below), the chassis can support 21 HDDs in the rear to support a total of 45 hot-swap 3.5" HDDs in total.
The double-sided arrangement provides direct hot-swap access to all of the storage drives without the need to open the chassis. There is also 100% cooling fan redundancy and an 80 PLUS Gold level Certified 1+1 Redundant power supply (1400W, 94%+ efficiency) to complete the solution.
Other standard models include a 3U and 4U offering 16 and 24 hot-swap 3.5" HDD trays at the front respectively. These also offer 100% redundant cooling and power supplies and can be integrated into server solutions offering up to 32TB or 48TB of SATA storage capacity or into stand-alone independent iSCSI SAN storage solutions that can be added onto an existing network.
The table below summarises the various options available for integration into solutions for your customers.
| Form Factor | Server type | Front HDD Bays | Rear HDD Bays | |
| SC825 | 2U | UP or DP | 8 | 0 |
| SC836 | 3U | UP, DP or JBOD | 16 | 0 |
| SC846 | 4U | UP, DP or JBOD | 24 | 0 |
| SC847 Server | 4U | UP or DP | 24 | 12 |
| SC847 JBOD | 4U | JBOD | 24 | 21 |
UP = Uni Processor, DP = Dual Processor, JBOD = Disk only
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