Qsan Continues Partnership With Western Digital

Qsan Technology, Inc. continues its technology partnership with Western Digital Corp. to improve density storage for the XCubeNAS series with reliable, flexible, and capacity expansion options for an enterprise-grade solution.

Western Digital’s Ultrastar Data60 and Data 102 hybrid storage platforms are high-density 4U JBOD disk enclosures that can be populated with up to 60 and 102 SAS/SATA drives respectively and come with redundant PSU, IOM, and fans.

The compact form factors also provide the flexibility to specify HDD and SSD combinations for balancing capacity, performance, and cost. With the Ultrastar platforms, XCubeNAS can scale to address the demanding storage needs of large enterprises, OEMs and cloud service providers.

By connecting 4 expansion units of Ultrastar Data102, customers can leverage up to 432 Ultrastar DC HC600 series HDDs, expanding capacity up to 6.5PB of raw storage. Western Digital’s JBOD solutions also incorporate innovations such as IsoVibe, which reduces vibration-induced performance degradation, and ArcticFlow, which improves cooling, reduces power consumption, and enhances long-term reliability. Together these technologies have been demonstrated to reduce disk drive field returns by over 60%¹.

Qsan Storage Manager (QSM) is a NAS operation system designed for XCubeNAS series. The core of QSM is Linux kernel and in-house fine-tuning 128-bit ZFS. The ZFS has scalability and can be managed easily, also with the ability to maintain the data integrity. QSM inherits the amazing native features of ZFS, its powerful storage features ensure persistent, reliable storage management, protection vs. data corruption, capacity expansion, several data integrity mechanisms, pool and disk encryption protection, unlimited snapshots, and unlimited clones.

“The addition of high-density Ultrastar JBOD expansion options for the XCubeNAS series dramatically increases its scale-up capability to offer greater customer value and choice,” said Dexter Yao, product manager, Qsan. “XCubeNAS is ideal for VM backup, DR backup target, and IP smart storage. What’s more, the WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) compliance storage solution offers the most cost-effective approach to extreme data protection and long-term data retention in the market.“

XCubeNAS series, combined with Ultrastar Data60 and Data 102 JBOD storage enclosures, will continue to serve customer needs by enabling them to more efficiently manage and protect data assets while scaling out their architecture as their businesses grow.

¹Compared to previous generation Western Digital JBODs. Based on observed drive return data, does not change product specifications and does not constitute a warranty.