On April 14th, Western Digital unveiled a unique portable storage solution called the "Ultrastar Transporter," resembling a suitcase but boasting a whopping 368TB of storage space inside.
It features up to seven PCIe 4.0 expansion slots, including four full-length x16 slots and three half-length x8 slots, which collectively accommodate the entire 368TB of NVMe SSD storage.
In terms of other configurations, it features two 3rd Gen Xeon 4310 processors, built on a 10nm process, with 12 cores, 24 threads, TDP of 120W, paired with 128GB DDR4 RDIMM memory, two SN740 2TB SSDs in RAID 1 (for boot), and a 1300W Titanium power supply.
Input/output includes two 200Gb Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one DB9 serial port, and one VGA video port.
As for why this product exists, as many of you may know, the most efficient way to transfer data between data centers and servers is by physically sending the hard drives over...
