JMR Electronics BlueStor 16 Bay PCIe x8 Extender Storage System (48 TB)

The BlueStor 16 Bay PCIe x8 Extender Storage System (48 TB) from JMR Electronics is an enterprise-class product featuring 16 hot-swappable 3 Gbps or 6 Gbps SAS/SATA disk drive bays, four high velocity hot-swappable cooling fans and dual 350W (N+1) hot-swappable power supplies. It also features an internal SAS expander for single cable connection to a SAS host controller and a 5 slot PCIe backplane providing expansion ports for any compatible user installed PCIe cards. The Gen 2 PCIe backplane has five x8 PCIe slot sand is supplied with an x16 PCIe host switch card. The BlueStor PCIe Extender essentially extends your host server's PCIe bus outside the server that provides additional slots for any application. You may or may not utilize the sixteen drive storage subsystem shared in the common PCIe Extender enclosure. The sixteen SAS/SATA disk drives are connected by an internal SAS controller occupying one or two of the five PCIe slots. The remaining PCIe slots may be used for any PCIe compatible cards including NICs, HBAs, RAID controllers and more. To connect the BlueStor PCIe Extender to your server, an x8 PCIe external port of the server is required. This port is provided by a plug-in card that occupies a single PCIe slot in the host. It creates an external x8 PCIe connector that makes the x8 PCIe bus available to the Extender.