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Q8C89A is a SAN storage system with 8 drive bays supporting SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD drive types. It delivers a total storage capacity of 512 TB with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 configurations. The system is powered by an Intel Xeon processor featuring 8 cores and comes with 16 GB of pre-installed ECC DDR4 memory, upgradeable to 64 GB.
Q8C89A offers connectivity interfaces including USB 3.2, 10GbE, and Fibre Channel, and supports 4 LAN ports to ensure robust network performance. It provides expansion support, redundant power supplies rated at 750W, and redundant fan cooling, making it ideal for use in SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization, and media server applications.
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A global financial services firm consolidates four legacy data centers onto a unified HPE NS CS500 fabric by deploying the Q8C89A-HPE NS CS500 Hybrid Field Upgrade. The upgrade unlocks additional 100 GbE ports and hybrid traffic handling without forklift replacements. Outcome: 2× higher throughput, 40% lower latency, simplified operations via a single management pane and a 25% reduction in total cost of ownership.
A manufacturing enterprise experiencing seasonal demand surges extends its on-prem CS500 network to a public cloud using the Q8C89A-HPE NS CS500 Hybrid Field Upgrade. By enabling dynamic port reconfiguration and unified L2/L3 fabric across on-premises and cloud, the IT team accelerates workload migrations. Outcome: 5× faster workload provisioning, 30% lower operational overhead, and real-time scaling with zero service disruption.
A regional healthcare provider implements a geo-redundant disaster recovery strategy by installing the Q8C89A-HPE NS CS500 Hybrid Field Upgrade across two data centers 150 km apart. The hybrid upgrade supports synchronous replication and automated failover over a single converged fabric. Outcome: sub-minute RTO, near-zero RPO, full compliance with healthcare regulations, and guaranteed patient data availability.
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 Q8C89A |  Q8D71A |  Q8D55A |  Q8F66A |  Q8B68A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | SAN | NAS | NAS | SAN |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 8-bay | 8-bay | 8-bay | 8-bay | 12-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 512 TB | 512 TB | 256 TB | 512 TB | 1 PB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / 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 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 / RAID 50 / RAID 60 / JBOD |
| 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 | 128 GB | 32 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 1GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 | 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 | 350W | 500W | 750W |
| 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 | Yes | No | No | No |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | SMB, Enterprise Data Center, Virtualization, Media Server |
| Product Name | Q8C89A Enterprise Storage System | Q8D71A Enterprise Storage Array | Q8D55A Enterprise NAS Storage System | Q8F66A Enterprise NAS Storage System | Q8B68A Enterprise Storage Array |
| Height | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17.5 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17.5 inches |
| Depth | 27 inches | 27.5 inches | 25 inches | 28 inches | 27.5 inches |
| Weight | 25 lbs | 35 lbs | 35 lbs | 55 lbs | 45 lbs |
Hybrid field upgrade expanded capacity smoothly.
No downtime during installation.
Performance remained stable.
Good scalability path.
Reliable field upgrade option.
The HPE NS CS500 Hybrid Field Upgrade (SKU: Q8C89A) is a certified hardware and software kit that transforms an HPE Nimble Storage CS500 All-Flash array into a hybrid configuration with additional HDD capacity.
The Q8C89A kit includes all required HDD drive carriers, backplanes, cabling, upgrade licenses, and firmware bundles for a seamless HPE Nimble Storage CS500 hybrid conversion.
Yes, the HPE NS CS500 Hybrid Field Upgrade (Q8C89A) is fully compatible with any HPE Nimble Storage CS500 All-Flash array running supported firmware versions.
After installing the Q8C89A upgrade, you’ll benefit from accelerated read/write caching on SSDs combined with increased bulk storage capacity on HDDs, delivering balanced IOPS and throughput.