FAST LTA Silent Brick Controller Pro X7040

The Controller X offers sufficient performance headroom for demanding data protection tasks: up to 6 GB/sec for file transfer and up to 2 GB/sec via S3 as a single node. It also supports up to 100G Ethernet. For faster backups and recovery—and for fast, active VTL archives as a tape replacement.

Backup & Restore

• Moderately growing environments
• Up to a maximum of 100 TB of source data
• Fast Clone support for Veeam
• Up to 4x Silent Brick Pro (NVMe) as primary target (performance)
• Silent Brick Max Air (HDD) as secondary target (capacity)
• Multiple Silent Brick Pro (removable) or Silent Brick Max Air for air gap (if required)

Single Node S3

• S3 server up to 240 TB (net)
• 4x Silent Brick Pro (NVMe)

VTL archive

• VTL archives as an alternative to tape libraries
• Up to 6 petabytes per controller Pro (gross)
• Up to 26x Silent Brick Max Air
• 4 slots for Silent Brick Pro, e.g., as cache / file server

Internal Capacity

• 4 slots for Silent Brick Pro
• Up to 384 TB (gross) NVMe
• Upgradable in increments of two up to 8 slots

External Capacity

• Supports up to 26 Silent Brick Max Air (SAS switch required)
• Up to 6,240 TB (gross) HDD

Data Interfaces

• Dual 10GbE (RJ45 or SFP+), modules included
• Dual 10GbE (RJ45 or SFP+), modules included

Management

• 1x 1GbE for administration & API, 1x 1GbE IPMI for hardware monitoring

Expansion

• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), dual Wide Link 2x 6 Gbit/s (2x 12 Gbit/s HD-Mini SAS SFF-8644) for Silent Brick Max Air

The X7 controller is also available without slots, e.g., for pure HDD-based VTL systems. Controllers (G Series) remain available to existing customers for expanding their current systems.