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HPE StoreEasy 1560 16TB SATA Storage
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Q2R97A is a SAN storage system featuring 16 drive bays that support SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD drive types, offering a total storage capacity of up to 512 TB. It provides RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 6 configurations to ensure data integrity and performance.
Q2R97A is powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and comes with 16 GB of pre-installed DDR4 memory, expandable to 64 GB. It interfaces via both Ethernet (10GbE) and Fibre Channel, and includes 2 LAN ports and USB 3.2 connectivity. With expansion support, a redundant power supply rated at 750W, and redundant fan cooling, this system is ideally suited for enterprise data centers, virtualization, media servers, and SMB backup use cases.
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In a mid-market professional services firm, the Q2R97A-HPE StoreEasy 1560 16TB SATA Storage consolidates file shares across multiple offices and remote workers, enforcing role-based access controls and automated snapshots. As a result, IT administrators achieve 99.9% uptime, simplify storage management, and accelerate secure file delivery to geographically dispersed teams.
A healthcare provider leverages the Q2R97A-HPE StoreEasy 1560 16TB SATA Storage as a primary backup target, replicating to on-premises vaults and Azure Blob for long-term retention. This configuration reduces backup windows by 40%, ensures HIPAA compliance with encryption-at-rest, and enables rapid recovery of critical patient records after an outage.
A post-production studio uses the Q2R97A-HPE StoreEasy 1560 16TB SATA Storage to centralize and archive raw 4K/8K video footage, integrating with editing workstations over SMB and NFS. The result is seamless, high-throughput access for large media files, on-demand scalability to petabyte-scale, and a streamlined content delivery workflow that shortens project turnaround times.
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 Q2R97A |  B7E39A |  Q2R94A |  K2R69A |  M0S88A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | SAN | SAN | SAN | SAN |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 16-bay | 12-bay | 16-bay | 16-bay | 12-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 512 TB | 1 PB | 1 PB | 1 PB | 512 TB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 |
| CPU Type | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon |
| CPU Cores | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Installed RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 64 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 32 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Active | Redundant Fan | Active |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 750W | 500W | 350W | 750W | 350W |
| Operating System | N/A | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS |
| Snapshot Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Sync Support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtualization Ready | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iSCSI Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Surveillance Support | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Use Case | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center |
| Product Name | Q2R97A Enterprise SAN Storage System | B7E39A Enterprise SAN Storage System | Q2R94A Enterprise Storage System | K2R69A High Performance Storage System | M0S88A Storage Array |
| Height | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches |
| Depth | 28 inches | 25 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches |
| Weight | 50 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 40 lbs | 45 lbs |
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The HPE StoreEasy 1560 (SKU Q2R97A) features 16 TB of SATA capacity, dual-controller architecture, 12 Gb/s SAS interconnects, 8x 3.5” drive bays, and 1U rack-mount form factor.
It delivers up to 6 GB/s throughput and 150,000 IOPS under mixed workloads, with caching and adaptive acceleration for optimized sequential and random I/O.
The HPE StoreEasy 1560 supports SMB 3.1.1, NFS v3/v4.1, and iSCSI, enabling seamless integration with Windows, Linux, and virtualization environments.
The 1U enclosure supports up to eight 3.5-inch SATA drives with hot-plug capability for non-disruptive maintenance.