Spectra ArcticBlue
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It took a tape company to release the true potential of disk. ArcticBlue leverages BlackPearl’s hybrid storage architecture and Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) media, creating the first object storage based disk platform that delivers maximum longevity, efficiency, and cost effectiveness with the performance of online disk.
Drive Lifecycle Management, Spectra’s power down technology, extends the life of your disk archive while delivering fast access to deep storage. Engineered for data reliability and integrity, local erasure coding combined with Spectra’s unique implementation of ZFS software brings new life to long-term nearline disk storage.
ArcticBlue creates an on premise cloud with an S3 interface to make deep storage more accessible – all from a company that you want to do business with.
Drive Lifecycle Management, Spectra’s power down technology, extends the life of your disk archive while delivering fast access to deep storage. Engineered for data reliability and integrity, local erasure coding combined with Spectra’s unique implementation of ZFS software brings new life to long-term nearline disk storage.
ArcticBlue creates an on premise cloud with an S3 interface to make deep storage more accessible – all from a company that you want to do business with.
Accessibility
Extend the life of your disk archive while delivering fast access to deep storage
Genetic Diversity
Store your information across a range of media types (SSDs, SAS HHDs, SATA HDDs, cloud, and tape) to digitally preserve your data forever
BlackPearl Enabled
BlackPearl provides an S3 front end interface to deep storage disk and tape
| ArcticBlue Nodes | 1/2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Number of Bands | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
| RAW Capacity TB | 384 TB | 768 TB | 1536 TB | 3072 TB | 6144 TB |
| Usable Capacity | Uncompressed TB | 320 TB | 640 TB | 1280 TB | 2560 TB | 5120 TB |
| Weight* | 168.2 lbs. | 245 lbs. | 490 lbs. | 980 lbs. | 1960 lbs. |
| Global Spares | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
| Throughput | 1 GB per Second |
| Power Consumption | 775W (R/W), 140W Idle per Node |
| Drive Type | 8TB SMR Drives |
| Height | 4U; 7" (178mm) per Node |
| Width | 17.5" (444mm) per Node |
| Depth | 40" (1016mm) (including Cable Mgmt) per Node |