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HPE NS SF300 Secondary Flash Base Array
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Q8B36A is a NAS storage system designed with 8 drive bays that support a mix of SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD drives. It offers a total storage capacity of up to 512 TB and supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 to ensure enhanced data protection. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and pre-installed with 16 GB of ECC DDR4 memory (expandable up to 128 GB), Q8B36A delivers the performance and reliability required in demanding data environments while offering interfaces such as USB 3.2, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel for versatile connectivity.
Q8B36A provides comprehensive network support with 1GbE connectivity across 4 LAN ports and features expansion support to accommodate future growth. Its redundant power supply rated at 350W and redundant fan cooling system ensure continuous operation, making it well suited for use cases such as SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization, and media server applications.
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In a global financial services firm supporting 3,000 Citrix virtual desktops, the IT team deploys the Q8B36A-HPE NS SF300 Secondary Flash Base Array as a secondary storage tier to cache user profiles and non-critical I/O. This configuration reduces latency by 60%, boosts desktop responsiveness, and lowers primary storage workload, delivering predictable VDI performance and a 20% reduction in overall storage costs.
A healthcare network managing petabyte-scale EMR databases integrates the Q8B36A-HPE NS SF300 Secondary Flash Base Array into its backup and snapshot workflow. By offloading secondary copies to high-density flash, the organization accelerates snapshot creation by 3×, restores critical patient records in under 10 minutes, and consistently meets compliance SLAs for recovery point and time objectives.
A national retail chain implements real-time point-of-sale analytics across 200 stores, leveraging the Q8B36A-HPE NS SF300 Secondary Flash Base Array at each edge location to cache transactional data locally. The high-performance flash tier delivers sub-millisecond ingest and query times, increasing analytic throughput by 50%, ensuring operational continuity during WAN outages, and reducing central bandwidth consumption.
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 Q8B36A |  Q8E95A |  Q8E91A |  Q8F08A |  Q8D31A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | NAS | SAN | SAN | NAS | NAS |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 8-bay | 12-bay | 24-bay | 8-bay | 8-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 512 TB | 256 TB | 512 TB | 512 TB | 512 TB |
| RAID Support | 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 | 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 | 4 | 8 |
| Installed RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 128 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 32 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 1GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 1GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.1 | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Active | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 350W | 750W | 500W | 350W | 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 | No |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / Media Server | Enterprise Data Center |
| Product Name | Q8B36A Storage System | Q8E95A Enterprise SAN Storage System | Q8E91A Enterprise SAN Storage | Q8F08A Enterprise NAS | Q8D31A Enterprise NAS |
| Height | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3.5 |
| Width | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17.3 inches | 17 inches | 17.5 |
| Depth | 12 inches | 28 inches | 27.5 inches | 28 inches | 28.0 |
| Weight | 25 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 30 lbs | 35 lbs |
Secondary flash base integrated smoothly with existing setup.
Stable operation since installation.
No performance issues observed.
Good option for expanding flash capacity.
Reliable behavior in production use.
The HPE NS SF300 Secondary Flash Base Array (SKU: Q8B36A) is an all-flash storage system designed for secondary workloads, offering high I/O performance, low latency and efficient data management in a compact 2U form factor.
The SF300 excels at secondary use cases such as backup, disaster recovery, analytics, test/dev environments and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), delivering fast read speeds and predictable performance.
The base SF300 array supports raw flash capacity from 3.5 TB up to 30 TB. Usable capacity varies by RAID level and data reduction but typically yields 2.5 TB to 24 TB of effective storage.
The SF300 integrates inline deduplication, compression and zero-detection, achieving up to 5:1 data reduction and minimizing footprint, power consumption and total cost of ownership.