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HPE NS AF7000/9000 11.5TB Flash Bundle
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Q8B71A is a SAN storage system featuring 16 drive bays that support a mix of SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD drives. It delivers a total storage capacity of up to 256 TB with support for RAID levels including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10, and is powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and 16 GB pre-installed memory, expandable up to 64 GB of ECC DDR4.
This system incorporates multiple interfaces such as USB 3.2 and 10GbE Ethernet with 4 LAN ports, offers expansion support, active cooling, and a redundant power supply rated at 500W. It runs on a Custom OS and provides advanced features including hot-swap drive support, snapshot, cloud sync, virtualization readiness, and iSCSI, making it ideal for enterprise data centers, SMB backup, virtualization environments, and media server applications.
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In a global financial services firm running high-transaction SQL and NoSQL databases, deploying the Q8B71A-HPE NS AF7000/9000 11.5TB Flash Bundle reduces query latency by up to 90% and boosts transaction throughput by 4x. The all-NVMe architecture delivers sub-millisecond response times under mixed read/write loads, ensuring real-time risk analysis and uninterrupted trading operations. Benefit: faster decision-making, improved SLAs, and predictable performance during peak trading hours.
A multinational enterprise needs to support 5,000 remote knowledge-worker desktops with consistent performance. Integrating the Q8B71A-HPE NS AF7000/9000 11.5TB Flash Bundle into their HPE Nimble Storage array consolidates 20+ storage shelves into a single 2U system, delivering 1.2 million IOPS at sub-1ms latency. Benefit: seamless user experience, simplified capacity planning, 60% reduction in power/cooling costs, and rapid desktop provisioning in under 10 minutes.
A retail analytics provider processes streaming sales data and trains machine learning models on terabytes of customer behavior information. The Q8B71A-HPE NS AF7000/9000 11.5TB Flash Bundle provides sustained 10GB/s throughput and consistent low-latency I/O for parallel compute clusters. Benefit: accelerates data ingestion and model training cycles by 70%, enabling near-instant personalized promotions and actionable insights during peak shopping events.
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 Q8B71A |  Q8B77A |  Q8B40A |  Q8F16A |  Q8E99A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | NAS | SAN | SAN | SAN |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 16-bay | 8-bay | 12-bay | 16-bay | 12-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 | 256 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 | 8 | 8 |
| Installed RAM | 16 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 64 GB | 32 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 1GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB-C | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Active | Redundant Fan | Active | Redundant Fan | Active |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 500W | 350W | 750W | 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 | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center |
| Product Name | Q8B71A Enterprise Storage System | Q8B77A Enterprise NAS Storage System | Q8B40A Enterprise SAN Storage System | Q8F16A Storage Array | Q8E99A High-Performance Storage Array |
| Height | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches |
| Width | 17.2 inches | 17 inches | 17.5 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches |
| Depth | 25.0 inches | 14 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches |
| Weight | 45 lbs | 25 lbs | 75 lbs | 50 lbs | 45 lbs |
Flash bundle provided immediate capacity and performance gains.
Integrated seamlessly into our existing Nimble setup.
Reliable flash expansion with stable throughput.
Good balance of capacity and performance.
Worked flawlessly after installation.
The HPE NS AF7000/9000 11.5TB Flash Bundle (SKU: Q8B71A) is an all-flash storage solution delivering ultra-low latency, enterprise-grade availability and built-in data services for mission-critical workloads.
This bundle delivers up to 800,000 IOPS and sub-300 μs latency, ensuring consistently high throughput for transactional and analytics applications.
The array employs inline deduplication and compression to deliver up to 5:1 data reduction, optimizing capacity and lowering TCO.
Yes, the Flash Bundle is NVMe-ready, providing direct-to-flash, end-to-end NVMe performance when paired with supported controllers.