Quantum Myriad N1010 NVMe Storage Node

Overview

The Quantum Myriad N1010 NVMe Storage Node is a high-performance, enterprise-grade NVMe storage appliance designed to serve as the foundational building block of the Myriad scale-out all-flash file and object storage system. This node supports demanding unstructured-data workflows — such as media and entertainment post-production, VFX/animation rendering, life-sciences data analytics, AI/ML training pipelines and large shared-storage environments — where low latency, high throughput and massive capacity are key.
The Myriad architecture allows clusters to start small (for example with a few N1010 nodes) and scale seamlessly, enabling organisations to expand capacity and performance non-disruptively as workloads grow. The N1010 node leverages NVMe flash drives, a high-speed internal fabric and distributed software to deliver consistent low-latency performance across large and growing data sets.

Features

• Engineered for ultra-high performance NVMe workflows: The N1010 node is tuned for sequential throughput and low latency, making it ideal for large file ingestion, real-time processing, high resolution streaming and multi-user collaborative storage.
• Enterprise high availability architecture: Each node is designed with redundant power supplies, hot-swappable NVMe drive bays and integration in a distributed cluster that avoids single points of failure.
• Compact modular design: The N1010 comes in a 1U-server form factor that allows high drive-density, enabling significant raw storage capacity in a small rack footprint.
• Seamless scale-out and growth: The Myriad system architecture supports “zero-click” expansion by adding more N1010 nodes — no manual reconfiguration of networking or storage controllers is needed; the system automatically integrates new nodes into the cluster.
• Modern software-defined storage architecture: Myriad’s software uses a microservices and Kubernetes-based framework, supporting advanced services like inline deduplication, compression, snapshots, erasure-coding and metadata distributed across all nodes — enabling efficient use of NVMe flash and simplified management.
• Future-ready and flexible: With support for high-density NVMe drives, RDMA-enabled networking (for example 100 GbE internal fabric), the N1010 is suitable for modern workloads like GPU-direct storage, AI/ML data lakes, and large-scale shared file systems.

Specifications

System & Architecture

• Product class: Myriad NVMe Storage Node (model N1010) in the Myriad file/object scale-out cluster.
• Form factor: 1U rack-mount server hosting up to 10 hot-swappable 2.5″ NVMe flash drive bays plus system drives.
• Drive support: Up to ten NVMe SSD drives per node (for example 10 × 15.36 TB in earlier configuration).
• Internal network fabric: 100 GbE RDMA interconnect between storage nodes and load-balancer nodes.
• External connectivity: Each node includes multiple 100 GbE ports for client or upstream traffic.
• Memory/CPU: Example specification includes a 64-core CPU and large RAM (for example 1 TB) in the storage node.
  Physical / Environmental
• Dimensions: Width ~437 mm (17.2″), Height ~43 mm (1.7″), Depth ~597 mm (23.5″) for representative storage node.
• Weight: Approx. 17.69 kg (39 lb) for a typical node configuration.
• Operating temperature: Approx. 10 °C to 35 °C (50 °F to 95 °F).
• Redundant power supplies: Dual hot-swappable PSUs (for example 750 W) in typical node.
  Capacity & Scaling
• Raw capacity per node: Example earlier spec shows up to ~153.6 TB per node (with 10 × 15.36 TB drives) in 10-node cluster example.
• Cluster capacity: Example initial cluster of 5 storage nodes yields ~768 TB raw; up to ~1.53 PB raw in 10 nodes.
  Software / Data Services
• File system: Distributed across nodes, storing both data and metadata in a key-value store; supports snapshots, clones, erasure-coding (n+m), and inline deduplication & compression.
• Protocol support: Clients can connect via NFS v3/v4, SMB; object (S3) support planned/future.