Supermicro’s new 45-bay SuperStorage system expands Supermicro’s portfolio of 60 and 90-bay Capacity Maximized Top Loading Storage Systems and JBODs, enabling customers to right-size their high-performance and high-capacity storage needs. The 45-bay storage system is optimized for Software-Defined Storage applications with increased system reliability and delivers uncompromised server performance in space-constrained scenarios such as oil & gas exploration in the field, movie-making industry, data collection and analytics in the branch office or retail locations, cruise lines at sea, aircraft and military applications. The new 45-Bay storage server comes with the industry’s most flexible and innovative design. It features tiered storage, packing hot, warm and cold storage in one compact 4U enclosure. It is the only 45-Bay storage server supporting NVMe SSDs (6 x U.2) for I/O intensive meta-data operations, highest performance CPU, largest memory with 24 DIMMs, M.2 SSDs, high-availability boot drives, and wide range networking choices with Supermicro Super I/O Module (SIOM) cards.