Supermicro Adds 4U 45 3.5-Inch Bay SSG-6048R-E1CR45H/L Storage Server

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) announces the SSG-6048R-E1CR45H/L 45-bay, capacity maximized, top loading, 4U, storage server that is 17% shorter than 60-bay systems.

SuperStorage 45/60/90-bay
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This 45-bay storage server comes with a flexible design. It features tiered storage, packing hot, warm and cold storage in one 4U enclosure. It is the only 45-bay storage server supporting NVMe SSDs (6xU.2) for I/O intensive meta-data operations, performance CPU, large memory with 24 DIMMs, M.2 SSDs, HA boot drives, and a range networking choices with the company’s Super I/O Module (SIOM) cards.

This storage server is for data center deployments with a short depth of 25.9 inches (0.66 meters) and is for space-constrained environments such as oil and gas exploration in the field, movie-making in the media and entertainment industries, data collection in the branch office or retail industry, cruise lines at sea, aircraft and military surveillance use. The common software-defined storage applications and use cases that are for the company’s top-loading storage server family include Red Hat Gluster, Ceph, data replication targets, backup, archive and cold storage, video streaming and surveillance.

The free-floating drive-bay design allows the suspension of all 45 drives on the chassis side walls and rails. This eliminates weight and vibration on the backplane and motherboard and improves system airflow, allowing lower fan speeds and therefore lower power consumption. This free-floating drive-bay design delivers storage performance with increased system reliability for our entire family of top-loading storage servers.

“The new top loading, Supermicro 45-Bay SuperStorage is the most flexible and most compact storage server in the world, with its short 25.9 inch length it offers the maximum performance of dual CPUs, 24 DIMMS and NVMe in a small space,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “Supermicro’s top-loading, capacity-maximized, storage server family delivers more than 10PB ^(*) storage in one standard 42U data center rack for maximum capacity and lower cost of ownership.

“The new 45-bay augments Supermicro’s industry-leading, storage product portfolio, that spans traditional enterprise storage servers, and HA platforms like Super SBB to a wide array of innovative form factors featuring capacity maximized, top-loading designs, general-purpose front loading or front and back loading designs and industry unique, balanced performance and capacity of the Simply Double design.“

The 45-bay SuperStorage SSG-6048R-E1CR45H/L is a high-density and performance storage system, designed for deployment in any enterprise data center. The enclosure hosts 45 hot-swappable 3.5″ top-loading drive bays with six optional NVMe U.2 drives support, plus two hot-swappable 2.5″ rear drive bays for OS images.

This server is optimized for the demanding software-defined storage applications, supporting up to dual Xeon processor E5-2600 v4/v3 with 3TB DDR4 memory in 24 DIMMs, hardware or software SAS3/SATA3 RAID options, and a range of networking solutions including 25 and 40GbE, 56Gb FDR IB, and 100Gb Intel Omni-Path Architecture networking options via the firm’s SIOM cards.

Deploying and servicing the 45-bay SuperStorage is easy with a compact cable management arm (CMA), hot-swap cooling, power supplies, tool-less drive carriers (with built-in 2.5″ adapter), out-of-band management through IPMI 2.0 with dedicated LAN port, firm’s RSD based on Intel Rack Scale Design support, and an LCD for fast system and disk diagnostics. The 45-bay system consumes less space in a rack for better airflow and supports redundant 1600W Platinum-level power supplies.

^(*) With ten 90-bay storage servers and 12TB HDD drives installed