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Overview of "QQ696A" – QQ696A is a high-performance SAN storage system featuring 16 drive bays that support Mixed drive types including SATA HDD, SAS HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD. It offers a total storage capacity of up to 512 TB with support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 configurations, ensuring rigorous data protection and performance.
Powered by an Intel Xeon processor with 8 cores and pre-installed 16 GB of ECC DDR4 memory (expandable up to 128 GB), this system provides robust compute support. It comes equipped with USB 3.2, 10GbE Ethernet, and Fibre Channel interfaces with network support, expansion capabilities, redundant cooling via redundant fans, and a redundant 350W power supply – making it ideal for use in SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization, and media server environments.
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In a leading investment bank’s data center, surging transaction volumes and real-time market feeds overwhelmed single-path I/O links. Deploying the QQ696A-HP D6000 Disk Enclosure Dual I/O Module Option Kit enabled redundant Fibre Channel connections to SAN switches, supporting seamless addition of 70 drives without downtime. Benefit: delivers continuous low-latency access for high-frequency trading, eliminates single points of failure, and ensures regulatory compliance with uninterrupted transaction logging.
During a large-scale VMware migration, an enterprise IT team needed guaranteed throughput and fault resilience for dozens of virtual machines. Integrating the QQ696A-HP D6000 Disk Enclosure Dual I/O Module Option Kit provided dual 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel paths to HP 3PAR storage arrays. Benefit: ensures balanced I/O load across SAN fabrics, maximizes VM density on existing servers, and reduces planned maintenance windows by up to 60%, accelerating cloud-ready infrastructure deployment.
A post-production studio struggled with lengthy backup windows and slow large-file analytics on 4K/8K video assets. By installing the QQ696A-HP D6000 Disk Enclosure Dual I/O Module Option Kit, the team established parallel data streams to both backup servers and Hadoop clusters. Benefit: cuts nightly backup time from 10 hours to under 3 hours, boosts sequential read/write performance by 80%, and enables real-time analytics for faster content delivery and editorial turnaround.
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 QQ696A |  M0S86A |  K2R70A |  QQ695A |  AP840B | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | SAN | NAS | SAN | NAS |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 16-bay | 12-bay | 16-bay | 24-bay | 8-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | Mixed | Mixed |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 512 TB | 96 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 | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 128 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.1 | 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 | 350W | 750W | 750W | 500W | 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 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center |
| Product Name | QQ696A Enterprise SAN Storage Server | M0S86A Enterprise SAN Storage | K2R70A Enterprise NAS Storage System | QQ695A Enterprise SAN Storage System | AP840B Enterprise NAS |
| Height | 4 inches | 4 inches | 3 inches | 4 inches | 1.75 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17.5 inches | 17.5 inches |
| Depth | 28 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches | 27 inches |
| Weight | 55 lbs | 45 lbs | 45 lbs | 50 lbs | 35 lbs |
Option kit installed cleanly and improved enclosure flexibility.
Reliable dual I O upgrade.
No issues during installation.
Good support component.
Worked as expected.
The HP D6000 Disk Enclosure Dual I/O Module Option Kit (SKU QQ696A) is an add-on module that provides two independent SAS host interfaces for enhanced bandwidth and redundancy in HP D6000 disk enclosures.
The QQ696A dual I/O module is compatible with all HP D6000 Disk Enclosure series, including the D6000 and D6020 models, running supported firmware versions.
Power down the enclosure, remove the blank I/O slot cover, align the QQ696A module with the slot rails, slide it fully into place until it clicks, then secure the retention latch and power up.
QQ696A delivers up to 12 Gbit/s per port, doubled host paths for load balancing, fail-over protection and improved aggregate throughput in HP D6000 enclosures.