AVADirect offering 8U 100TB Storage servers

AVADirect has just pushed the size of their storage servers to the max. They did this both physically and capacity wise.

According to a PR posting over at their forum the new servers will be a full 8U high and have 100 Terabytes of storage. That is a whole lot of downloaded movies. Each server has 50 Bays for either SATA or SAS drives. When combined with 2TB drives you get the full 100TB.

Of course these systems are not for your average geek looking to hide his collection of Star Trek The Next Generation. No these are for enterprise storage systems where tons of data needs to be available at to high-bandwidth networks.

The rest of the components in the systems are impressive as well. AVADirect is offering both AMD and Intel flavors each can be setup as either SATA or SAS.

AMD Opteron Storage Server
Two Six-Core / Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 2000 Series (Socket F) support; HT3.0 Link support
nForce Pro 3600 NVIDIA IO-55 Chipset
Up to 64GB DDR2-800/667/533 SDRAM
Dual-port Gigabit LAN/Ethernet Controller
up to 50 hot-swap hard drives with RAID controller upgrade
SIMLP IPMI 2.0 Support
8 Fan Support with Speed Control
SAS or SATA support
Fully redundant power supply for 100% data protection

Intel Xeon 5500 Storage Server
Two Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 Nehalem-EP processor support
Intel 5500 chipset
Up to 144GB DDR3-1333 SDRAM
Dual-port Gigabit LAN/Ethernet Controller
up to 50 hot-swap hard drives with RAID controller upgrade
8 Fan Support with Speed Control
SAS or SATA support
Fully redundant power supply for 100% data protection
Intel flavors start at $7600 for SATA and $8300 for SAS. AMD versions run $7500 for SATA and $8200 for SAS