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Q8C90A is a high-performance NAS storage system featuring a 12-bay design that supports a mix of SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD drives. It delivers a total storage capacity of up to 1 PB and supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 configurations while being powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and 16 GB of pre-installed ECC DDR4 memory, expandable up to 64 GB.
The system offers interfaces including USB 3.2 and 10GbE Ethernet with 4 LAN ports, along with expansion support for additional connectivity options. Engineered with a redundant fan cooling system and dual redundant power supplies rated at 750W, Q8C90A is ideal for use cases such as SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization, and media servers.
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In a financial services environment processing high-frequency trading data, deploying the Q8C90A-HPE NS CS700 Hybrid Field Upgrade enables automated hot/cold tiering across SSD and HDD. This accelerates query performance by 40%, delivers sub-millisecond response times for analytics workloads, and reduces storage costs by 25% through intelligent data placement.
For a multinational enterprise requiring robust backup and DR, integrating the Q8C90A-HPE NS CS700 Hybrid Field Upgrade provides synchronous replication between on-premises NS-ON storage and cloud DR targets. This achieves an RPO under 5 minutes, simplifies failover testing, and ensures business continuity within minutes of an outage.
In a healthcare organization supporting 1,000 VDI endpoints, the Q8C90A-HPE NS CS700 Hybrid Field Upgrade leverages flash-accelerated write caching to handle boot storms. End-user login times shrink by 60%, storage IOPS increase threefold, and infrastructure TCO drops by 20% through optimized hybrid flash utilization.
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 Q8C90A |  Q8F72A |  Q8D68A |  Q8D69A |  Q8F14A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | NAS | SAN | SAN | SAN | NAS |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 12-bay | 12-bay | 16-bay | 12-bay | 16-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 1 PB | 1 PB | 512 TB | 1 PB | 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 | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 64 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 750W | 750W | 750W | 500W | 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 | No | No |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization |
| Product Name | Q8C90A Enterprise Storage System | Q8F72A Enterprise SAN Storage System | Q8D68A 16-Bay Enterprise SAN | Q8D69A SAN Storage System | Q8F14A Enterprise NAS |
| Height | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3.5 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches |
| Width | 17.5 inches | 17.3 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches |
| Depth | 28 inches | 28.0 inches | 27 inches | 28 inches | 25 inches |
| Weight | 45 lbs | 46 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs |
Hybrid field upgrade expanded capacity seamlessly.
No downtime during expansion.
Performance remained consistent.
Good scalability solution.
Dependable hybrid upgrade.
The HPE NS CS700 Hybrid Field Upgrade (Q8C90A) is an in-field enhancement package that adds hybrid storage capabilities to the CS700 series, combining HDD and SSD tiers for optimized performance and capacity.
Key features include dynamic tiering between HDD and SSD, automated data placement, increased IOPS, and simplified management via the HPE InfoSight analytics platform.
By automatically placing frequently accessed data on SSDs and less-active data on HDDs, the upgrade delivers up to 3× higher IOPS and reduces latency for mission-critical workloads.
Yes, the Q8C90A upgrade is fully compatible with current HPE NS CS700 appliances running firmware version 3.0 or later and requires no additional chassis modifications.