Quanta QCT is preparing to ship a high-density JBOD storage platform under its MESOS line of storage products.

JBOD stands for “Just a Bunch Of Disks”. It is a certain type of storage system configuration, alternative to RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

Quanta’s MESOS M4600H (expected to ship this month) places 60 hot-pluggable 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives in a coverless 4U chassis that features Quanta’s heat-management and vibration-isolation technologies.

Eliminating the top cover simplifies serviceability and allows heat to be managed across the entire rack, an approach that requires both engineering and manufacturing expertise, according to the manufacturer.

Ultra-high storage densities can present substantial mechanical engineering challenges from the sheer mass of rotating media. Interference from vibration caused by hard disk rotation is isolated in the MESOS M4600H to assure reliability and high performance across a range of loading and access scenarios.

The design is optimized for the general-purpose needs of enterprise and service-provider data centers.

Users can configure various disk options to address their needs. A single MESOS M4600H can support up to 240TB of capacity, with individual drives of 4TB capacity each.

Quanta is pitching MESOS M4600H as an alternative for enterprises that want an ultra-dense storage solution but might not need up to 240TB total storage on a single server. The unit can be shared by up to four servers, allowing for more efficient multi-server configurations.