Introducing SANS Digital NVMe Solutions

All Flash PCIe 4.0 NVMe Shareable Network Storage or Embedded RAID Storage
​with Single/Dual Hardware RAID
Engines & Cache Protection & Scale-Up Expandability

SANS Digital all new NVMe solutions are a true hardware RAID in either embedded RAID storage or NAS shared storage, providing a true RAID 5 / 6/ 50/ 60 hardware RAID solutions that not only provide the performance for extreme transfer speed, but also hardware RAID protection that not available in JBOF solutions or software RAID solutions.​
  • Choose a Interface - PCIe 4.0 Direct Attached RAID Solutions or Network Shared Storage Solutions
  • All Flash NVMe - NVMe only, no spinning disk for highest possible performance
  • 16 (8+8) in 2U form factor - 8 x 2.5” U.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, support 7mm thick only (top 2 layers) + 8 x 2.5” U.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe, support both 15mm and 7mm thick (bottom 2 layers). M.2 NVMe can be supported by using M.2-to-U.2 adapter
  • Hardware RAID - Dedicated RAID XOR engine, 8G DDR4-ECC memory, SuperCap Cache Protection
  • RAID Protection with Hot-spare - Support in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60

Direct Attached RAID Storage - Single or Dual RAID Engine

Single RAID Engine

Dual RAID Engine

NVMe DAS Applications

  • 8K video capturing & editing applications - 8K video requires more storage capacity and faster throughput. NVMe DAS RAID storage meets the challenge brought by 8K video demands perfectly. MacPro with a vacant PCIe slot provide the best performance and RAID protection solutions
  • AI & Machine Learning - the large size, fast, cost-effective, protected and reliable NVMe storage decoupled from the computing Nodes, so that the computing Nodes can focus on the real truly problem solving computational jobs.
  • NVMe-Caching or NVMe-Tier - Add an additional NVMe Caching layer for high performance caching or NVMe-Tier for online hot data layer, can dramatically improve overall performance.
  • Any computer systems require fast, cost-effective all flash solutions!

Topology Illustration

Standard PCIe 3.x / 4.x Slot Connections
  • ​PCIe - Single RAID
  • PCIe - Dual RAID
  • ​PCIe - Single RAID x2
  • PCIe - Dual RAID x2
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PCIe 4.0 x8 - Single RAID Engine
​PCIe 4.0 x16 - Dual RAID Engines
* PCIe 4.0 x16 slot must allow PCIe Bifurcation set to “x8x8” from motherboard BIOS
PCIe 4.0 x8 slots x2 - Single RAID Engine x2
​PCIe 4.0 x16 slots x2 - Dual RAID Engines x2
​* PCIe 4.0 x16 slot must allow PCIe Bifurcation set to “x8x8” from motherboard BIOS
​NVMe Switching Host
  • For the host has a single PCIe x16 Slot but it does not support PCIe Bifurcation
  • NVMe Switching Host Adapter is provided and connect to either 1x  Dual RAID Engine enclosure or 2 x Single RAID Engine enclosures.
  • PCIe Switching - Single RAID x2
  • PCIe Switching - Single RAID x2
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​PCIe 4.0 x16 Switching Host Controller Adapter - Single RAID Engine Enclosure x2
​PCIe 4.0 x16 Switching Host Controller Adapter - Dual RAID Engines Enclosure

NVMe Network Shared Storage with Expansion

Hardware RAID Network Storage Solution for Network Sharing

  • Based on the EliteNAS version 7 platform 
  • Support Windows / MAC / Linux Network share with NVMe performance
  • True NVMe PCIe 4.0 Hardware RAID engine for the best performance and protections
  • Support multiple File systems for different applications: XFS, EXT4, ZFS-RAIDz, ZFS- over HW RAID
  • Flexible Scale-up options
    • SAS Expansion JBOD using Spinning Disk
    • Hardware RAID NVMe only Direct attached Storage
    • AccuRAID Hardware embedded RAID solutions with spinning disk or SSD
    • AccuRAID iSCSI Storage Solution