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Q8B32A is a high-performance SAN storage system engineered for demanding enterprise environments. It features an 8-bay design that supports a mix of SATA, SAS, SSD, and NVMe drives, offering a total storage capacity of up to 512 TB. The system delivers robust data protection with support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, and JBOD configurations, and is powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores paired with 16 GB of pre-installed DDR4 memory, expandable up to 64 GB.
Q8B32A provides versatile connectivity through interfaces including USB 3.2, 10GbE Ethernet, and Fibre Channel, ensuring seamless network integration for critical workloads. The unit is built for scalability with expansion support, redundant power supplies rated at 750W, and a cooling system featuring redundant fans. These attributes make Q8B32A ideally suited for SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization applications, and media server deployments.
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Business scenario: A global financial services firm needs to support 2,000 concurrent virtual desktops for remote traders under stringent SLAs. By deploying the Q8B32A-HPE NS CS7000 Hybrid Base Array hyperconverged platform, IT consolidates compute and NVMe-accelerated storage with inline deduplication. Outcome: Achieved 5× IOPS performance, reduced VDI login times by 60%, and lowered operational costs by 30% while ensuring 99.99% uptime.
Technical scenario: A national retail chain ingests terabytes of POS and IoT sensor data to forecast demand and optimize inventory. Integrating the HPE CS7000 Hybrid Base Array (Q8B32A) with NVMe caching and HPE InfoSight, their Hadoop and Spark clusters deliver sub-second query response times. Outcome: Improved forecast accuracy by 25%, cut data‐latency from hours to minutes, and accelerated decision-making for inventory allocation.
Business scenario: A mid-sized manufacturer with multiple sites requires resilient DR and faster backups for critical ERP workloads. By implementing the Q8B32A-HPE NS CS7000 Hybrid Base Array as a hyperconverged DR target, the IT team leverages native snapshots and WAN-optimized replication. Outcome: Reduced recovery time objective (RTO) by 70%, shortened backup windows from 8 to 2 hours, and unified management under a single pane of glass.
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 Q8B32A |  Q8C90A |  Q8D42A |  Q8F66A |  Q8F00A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | NAS | SAN | NAS | NAS |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 8-bay | 12-bay | 8-bay | 8-bay | 12-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 512 TB | 1 PB | 1 PB | 512 TB | 512 TB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 / RAID 50 / RAID 60 / JBOD | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | 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 |
| 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 | 64 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Active | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 750W | 750W | 500W | 500W | 500W |
| Operating System | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS |
| Snapshot Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Sync Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtualization Ready | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iSCSI Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Surveillance Support | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server |
| Product Name | Q8B32A Storage Array | Q8C90A Enterprise Storage System | Q8D42A Enterprise Storage Array | Q8F66A Enterprise NAS Storage System | Q8F00A Enterprise NAS |
| Height | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3.5 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17.5 inches | 17.5 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches |
| Depth | 28 inches | 28 inches | 25 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches |
| Weight | 25 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 55 lbs | 45 lbs |
Hybrid base array deployed smoothly and runs reliably.
Handles mixed workloads efficiently.
Good balance of performance and capacity.
Stable production usage.
Solid hybrid platform.
The HPE NS CS7000 Hybrid Base Array is a mid-range storage solution combining SSD caching and high-capacity HDDs to deliver cost-effective, scalable block storage for virtualized and database workloads.
It features dynamic SSD read caching, up to 1.8 PB raw capacity, 12 Gb SAS connectivity, multi-protocol support, inline deduplication and compression, and integrated management via HPE OneView.
The hybrid design uses intelligent SSD caching to accelerate random read I/O while storing cold data on high-density HDDs, balancing performance with cost efficiency.
Starting at 8 drive bays, the CS7000 scales up to 84 bays through eight expansion enclosures, enabling seamless capacity growth without performance degradation.