Promise VTrak J5960 4U Enterprise JBOD Solution for Up to 60 Drives and 8PB

Promise Technology, Inc. has unveiled its JBOD solution VTrak J5960.

This solution offers high density storage that meets the global demand for large storage solutions and also focuses on eco-friendliness.

It is launched as global data center investment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.9% in 2019-2025, backed by the acceleration of digital adoption during Covid-19. As a result, IT companies and enterprises’ need for larger, faster, and more reliable storage solutions have ramped up worldwide.

“Promise Technology constantly puts customer needs at the forefront as we continue to offer cutting-edge technologies. VTrak J5960 answers demands for larger data capacity while serving as a reliable, cost-effective, and energy-efficient big capacity JBOD solution,” said Alice Chang, CMO, “Our ability to continuously offer ground-breaking solutions is backed by almost 20 years of experience developing ‘green’. To date, we have already shipped out more than 20,000 units of JBOD to customers worldwide, with a variety of solutions catering to different user scenarios such as data centers and cloud providers.“

JBOD with Green DNA:
VTrak J5960 continues company’s record with green technologies by incorporating:

• green design: tiered power management options

• green production: complying with RoHS, WEEE, ISO14001 and REACH in manufacturing and recycling

• Firm’s commitment to the environment: better management of resources and waste in the production of J5960

In addition to its cable-less design, the VTrak J5960’s PSUs are certified 80 Plus Platinum and Energy Star Ready, resulting in high power conversion efficiency at different loads: 91% efficiency for 20% loads, 94% efficiency for 50% loads, and 91% efficiency for 100% loads.

Supports up to 8PB of raw capacity; sets this JBOD unit expansion record
Answering rising capacity demand, VTrak J5960 provides density and the flexibility to balance capacity and performance with up to 60 HDDs maximum capacity per chassis of up to 1PB in raw storage using 18TB HDDs. In addition, VTrak J5960 is capable of cascading up to 8 4U60 JBOD enclosures for a total 8PB of raw capacity. Its SAS zoning feature allows flexibility of attaching multiple server nodes to one giant shared JBOD enclosure.

Designed for performance data center and enterprise applications
VTrak J5960 offers 6 external 12Gb SAS ports per iI/O)module, a total 12 12Gb SAS ports on dual I/O modules per chassis, to provide the necessary performance for modern data centers between server nodes and storage.

The maximum performance of VTrak J5960 in heavy workload scenarios is up to 15GB/s aggregate transfer rate of 4-ports connection and 60 HDDs, if using 6-ports connection from host with PCIe 4.0 x 16, or 2 x PCIe 4.0 x 8 HBA, performance potential up to 16GB/s (60 HDDs) or 23GB/s (60 SSD). This performance is optimized to support high-speed computing application, cloud platform and enterprise applications.

Ease of maintenance
VTrak J5960 system’s sliding top and sliding rail system enable easy access to all HDDs and interior components while remaining safely mounted in the rack. The design allows users to pull out the JBOD enclosure with the top cover remaining in the rack, offering quicker HDD servicing.

In terms of IO module servicing, VTrak J5960 goes further: the system’s IO modules are replaced at the front side of the JBOD, while the SAS ports for host connectivity remains at the rear side. This means extra space at the back side of the racks are unnecessary.

This system also boasts enterprise redundancy with hot-swappable I/O, power supply unit, fan and drive modules.

VTrak J5960 will be made available in 3Q21 through company’s channel networks.