- AIC SB407-VA High Density 4U Storage Server has 60 HDD Ballets and 8 SSD BULTS
- Supports Xeon CPUs, DDR5, PCIE GEN5 and NVME, SAS, SATA Connectivity
- Redundant cooling and power control Hold 80 kg of server reliably under heavy work loads
The SB407 VA from AIC is a new 4U storage server with high density built to stuff in drives. It supports 60 Hot-Swappable 3.5-inch bays, 8 2.5-inch bays and 2 M.2 slots aiming for almost 3pb raw storage.
It uses double 4th and 5th Gen Intel Xeon scalable processors and modern features such as DDR5 and PCIE GEN5.
The server is built for AI tasks, data analysis and large-scale data islands and offers several PCIe Gen5 slots, M.2 support and a mix of NVME, SAS and SATA connection.
Why no 3.5-inch SSDs?
To keep hardware running under pressure, it uses the front-to-back airflow, hot-swap superfluous fans and 800W redundant power supplies.
The server includes built -in management tools to supply power, cooling and system health, even if the machine itself is down.
At 434 x 853 x 176 mm and weighs approx. 80 kg (around the same weight as a washing machine) packs the SB407-VA power and storage for a compact device that fits nicely into a standard data center stand.
The system has been built to balance scale and resilience, giving companies a way of combining massive storage with modern computer, but with all these bays dedicated to 3.5-inch drives it made me think something I’ve never considered before-why is there no 3.5-inch SSDs?
The answer (which I suppose I already knew) is straightforward. SSDs just don’t need the space.
Flash chips and controllers take up so little space that they easily fit within a 2.5 -inch or smaller form factor. Larger encapsulations would mostly be empty.
To fill a 3.5-inch, add more chips and it would simply increase costs without delivering real benefit benefits.
Data centers also prefer 2.5-inch drives because they allow greater capacity in limited rack space, making them more practical than larger formats.
So while the SB407-VA shows why 3.5-inch bays remain important, SSDs remain small, leaving these bays to turn rust.
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