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HPE NS CS/SF Hybrid 21TB HDD Bundle
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Q8B68A is an enterprise-class SAN storage system featuring a 12‐bay design that supports a mixed range of drive types including SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD. It offers a total storage capacity of up to 1 PB while providing comprehensive RAID support (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, and JBOD) to protect data integrity and maximize performance.
The Q8B68A is powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and comes pre-installed with 16 GB of ECC DDR4 memory, expandable up to 128 GB. It features a 10GbE network interface along with 4 LAN ports and USB 3.2 connectivity, ensuring high-speed data transfers. Designed for scalability, the system offers expansion support, redundant cooling via redundant fans, and a redundant power supply rated at 750W, making it ideal for SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization environments, and media server applications.
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In a mid-sized enterprise running 200+ VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines, IT teams deploy the Q8B68A-HPE NS CS/SF Hybrid 21TB HDD Bundle to combine high-capacity HDD storage with flash caching. This hybrid solution delivers sub-millisecond latency during boot storms and peak compute cycles while reducing total cost of ownership by 40% compared to all-flash arrays, ensuring predictable performance and seamless VM scale-out.
A global manufacturing firm ingests 10TB/day of sensor and machine-health data into its analytics platform, leveraging the Q8B68A-HPE NS CS/SF Hybrid 21TB HDD Bundle for tiered storage. By offloading cold data to high-capacity HDDs and accelerating hot indexes via onboard flash, the solution sustains 2GB/s sequential writes and sub-millisecond query times, enabling real-time dashboarding and compliance reporting at a 50% lower capital expense.
An enterprise IT department safeguards 5PB of critical financial and customer data by integrating the Q8B68A-HPE NS CS/SF Hybrid 21TB HDD Bundle into its backup and DR infrastructure. The bundle’s high-capacity HDD shelves combined with inline deduplication and compression achieve up to 15:1 data reduction, cutting offsite replication window by 60% and slashing secondary storage costs by one-third while meeting stringent RTO/RPO SLAs.
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 Q8B68A |  Q8F75A |  Q8F84A |  Q8F01A |  Q8B77A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 12-bay | 8-bay | 24-bay | 48-bay | 8-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 1 PB | 256 TB | 1 PB | 512 TB | 256 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 10 | 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 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 | 8 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 128 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 1GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 2 | 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 | Active | Active | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 750W | 350W | 750W | 750W | 350W |
| 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 | Yes | No |
| Use Case | SMB, Enterprise Data Center, Virtualization, Media Server | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization |
| Product Name | Q8B68A Enterprise Storage Array | Q8F75A Enterprise NAS Storage System | Q8F84A Enterprise SAN Storage | Q8F01A Enterprise Storage System | Q8B77A Enterprise NAS Storage System |
| Height | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches |
| Width | 17.5 inches | 17.5 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches |
| Depth | 27.5 inches | 26 inches | 28 inches | 25 inches | 14 inches |
| Weight | 45 lbs | 35 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 25 lbs |
HDD bundle delivered consistent capacity performance.
Smooth integration into existing hybrid system.
Reliable storage for mixed workloads.
No issues since installation.
Good value for enterprise environments.
The HPE NS CS/SF Hybrid 21TB HDD Bundle (SKU Q8B68A) is a preconfigured set of enterprise-grade 21TB hard disk drives optimized for HPE Nimble Storage and StoreVirtual hybrid arrays.
This bundle is fully compatible with HPE Nimble Storage CS-Series, HPE StoreVirtual 3200/3400, and HPE StoreVirtual VSA hybrid configurations.
The bundle contains eight 21TB enterprise HDDs, drive sleds, mounting hardware, and HPE firmware preloaded for immediate deployment.
Hybrid storage combines high-capacity HDDs with SSD caching to deliver cost-effective capacity and accelerated read/write performance under mixed workloads.