iXsystems Up to 720TB 2U TrueNAS Enterprise F-Series All-NVMe Appliances and TrueNAS SCALE 23.10 Software

iXsystems, Inc. announced the availability of its TrueNAS Enterprise F-Series of storage appliances along with the TrueNAS SCALE (23.10) software.

These all-NVMe models were designed for performance, reliability, and density to serve the most demanding workloads, while offering reductions in power, space, and TCO. With 30TB NVMe drives, a single 2U system supports 720TB of HA storage.

TrueNAS F-Series appliances ship with TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10. With the latest-gen hardware and software, IT organizations have a choice to address demanding performance requirements while enjoying the benefits of Open Source economics. This solution from the company supports data-intensive use cases including AI/ML, containerization, virtualization, content creation/editing, database servers, and gaming. This series has been eagerly awaited by the firm’s 1,000s of customers in enterprise, government, healthcare, service provider, media creation, education, research and any organization in need of high-performance storage for their critical data.

TrueNAS F-Series storage highlights:

• 2 models to choose from: F100 with 30GB/s bandwidth/node and F60 with 20GB/s bandwidth/node
• High-performance: NVMe-powered storage for low latency and bandwidths greater than 20GB/s
• Next-Gen hardware: Designed to provide unrivaled resilience and drive density
• Superior scalability: The F-Series scales from a few terabytes to 720TB in 2U, to meeti user requirements. Both scale-up and scale-out technologies can be used to increase capacity
• HA: Dual-controller architecture provides continuous accessibility, preventing data downtime
• Maximum data mobility: The TrueNAS F-Series provides connectivity options to maximize interoperability
• Future-ready design: Built for modern business applications and the challenges they present

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The TrueNAS M-Series remains the versatile and high-capacity system for hybrid, flash, and HDD requirements in the portfolio. The M-Series and F-Series systems both run the same TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 software with compatible features and a common WebUI.

“Support for demanding workloads is the top reason organizations are looking for NVMe storage, and part of choosing NVMe is to future-proof their environment,” said Dave Raffo, senior analyst, The Futurum Group. “With high-performance appliances at a fraction of the price of many NVMe systems, TrueNAS Enterprise is an increasingly interesting choice for organizations to consider.”

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TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 is available across the company’s appliance portfolio, offering storage, compute, and container solutions for a flexible feature-rich storage environment. The Linux-based platform uniquely offers KVM virtualization, native container support, Kubernetes integration, and the ability to scale up to 1,200 drives and 25PB+ in a single system. The highly-evolved TrueNAS data platform emphasizes scalability and HA, boasting a scale-up or scale-out architecture built on the OpenZFS 2.2 filesystem. This ensures data integrity and advanced storage features to meet the most data-intensive business needs.

Highlights of TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 include:

• Upgraded to OpenZFS 2.2 with multiple iXsystems contributions
• Upgraded to Linux Kernel 6.1 with improved hardware support
• Improved application UI
• Enhanced storage pool UI
• ZFS Block Cloning (de-dupe) for SMB and NFS file copies
• ZFS dRAID Pool Layouts

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“The unveiling of TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 and the TrueNAS F-Series Storage line emphasizes our relentless drive to offer leading-edge, open-source storage solutions,” said Morgan Littlewood, SVP, product management, iXsystems. “We are excited about the value these solutions will bring to users as they support the industry’s most demanding M&E and IT workloads.”

Both TrueNAS Enterprise F-series appliances and TrueNAS SCALE 23.10 are available for users and enterprises to explore. TrueNAS SCALE 23.10 is free to download and TrueNAS F-Series pricing varies based on the configuration of each system.