HYDRAstor HS8-2000 comes in five basic configurations with expansion set options to incrementally and non-disruptively customize to any environment. You can start at the entry level and build one building block at a time, or buy a larger configuration, and build from there.

NEC HYDRAstor HS8 2000 offers more performance and capacity in a smaller footprint and for less power per MB per second throughput and per TB of storage capacity. A standard entry level configuration of one accelerator node and two storage nodes provides approximately 315 TB of effective capacity with 300 MB per second throughput performance.

	Performance: Each new NEC HYDRAstor HS8-2000 Accelerator Node provides 300 MB per second performance per accelerator node, 300 percent improved performance over the previous generation of Accelerator Nodes.
	Capacity: Each new HYDRAstor HS8-2000 Storage Node provides raw capacity of 12 TB and effective capacity of 157.5 TB (based on a 20:1 deduplication ratio with default protection 300 percent greater than RAID 5), 400 percent more capacity than the previous generation of Storage Nodes.
	Footprint: At 300 MB per second per Accelerator Node unit and 157.5 TB per Storage Node unit, the HS8-2000 packs 300 percent more performance and 400 percent more storage capacity in the same amount of space as the previous generation of HYDRAstor nodes.
	Energy: The HS8-2000 Accelerator Node uses only 1.3 watts per MB per second while the Storage Nodes use only 3.8 watts per TB of storage. This represents approximately 67 percent less power usage for an equal performance and storage capacity when compared to nodes from the previous generation.