Supermicro Launches Double-Sided Storage Chassis
New 847 series server chassis provides up to 45 hot-swap 3.5-inch hard drives in 4U, with redundant power supply support that has at least 94 percent efficiency.
Super Micro Computer Inc., maker of application-optimized server and storage solutions, has launched a line of double-sided storage chassis, which enable extra high-density storage.
According to Supermicro, the new 847 series server chassis provides redundant power s
upply support with 94 percent efficiency or better. The server chassis also features 36 hot-swap 3.5-inch hard drive trays, with 24 in the front and 12 in the rear. For JBOD configurations, the chassis can support 21 HDDs in the rear for a total of 45 hot-swap 3.5″ HDDs.
Supermicro’s 847A series of storage chassis support 36 hot-swap SAS/SATA drives in 4U.†These storage solutions also support up to seven low-profile add-on cards (LP models) or four full-height, full-length plus three low-profile add-on cards (UIO models).†
With iPass connectivity mapping four drives per cable for easier maintenance, Supermicro says the new chassis are optimized for direct-attach storage solutions.†They support both 3 Gb/s and 6 Gb/s SAS interfaces for high-bandwidth storage applications.†
“When combined with Supermicro’s wide selection of networking and storage controller cards, these systems are ideal for SAN or NAS applications as well as Cloud storage, SaaS, disaster recovery, and iSCSI solutions,” the company states in a press release on the subject. “Deploying these storage chassis into a new 42U Supermicro rack, which virtually eliminates cable obstructions, produces a truly optimized total solution.”
Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro, says the double-sided, high-capacity storage chassis provide customers with “direct hot-swap access to all of the storage drives while saving valuable rack space.”
“These chassis feature Supermicro’s advanced redundant cooling subsystem design, delivering optimal system efficiency,” Liang says, “which saves customers hundreds of dollars per system on their yearly energy bills and helps preserve the environment.”
All SC847 chassis flexibly support both uni-processor and dual-processor serverboards and also feature optimized hard drive signal trace routing and improved hard drive tray designs to dampen vibration and improve drive performance.
Supermicro claims the storage chassis features “the world’s first fully redundant Platinum Level power supplies,” with PMBus functionality, SES-2 features, and enhanced hard drive trays.
Consistent with Supermicro’s so-called “building blocks business model,” the company offers a range of models, including the SC847E16 series–with a single SAS2 (6 Gb/s) expander capable of cascading up to 240 drives–and the SC847E26 series, with dual SAS2 (6 Gb/s) expanders for redundant data path failover protection for mission-critical applications.
