Taipei City, Taiwan – December 19, 2019 – QSAN Technology, Inc. (QSAN) a leading storage technology designer and manufacturer, extends its technology partnership with Western Digital to support the Ultrastar® Data102 hybrid storage platform, which is a fully redundant hybrid 4U JBOD disk enclosure, as an extreme density expansion solution of QSAN’s XCubeSAN series storage.
The Ultrastar Data102 supports up to 102 HDDs, as well as hybrid support with up to 24 SSDs for a data acceleration tier. By connecting up to four expansion units with Ultrastar Data102, XCubeSAN will reach up to 6.1PB of raw storage in an 18U rack space, providing extreme flexibility to specify the HDD and SSD combinations to balance capacity, performance, and cost.
“We are very pleased to work with Western Digital again for this joint solution to deliver the densest and highest capacity SAN storage solution in the market,” said Wilson Fang, product manager, SAN Product Management, QSAN. “Now our channel partners can deliver the best-of-breed storage solutions to satisfy capacity-hungry applications such as surveillance, backup and archive with a more cost-effective approach for high capacity.“
QSAN XCubeSAN series and the Ultrastar Data102 hybrid storage platform combine to provide a true enterprise-grade storage solution with high availability, high capacity, improved TCO and uncompromised performance.