Fuel next-gen AI breakthroughs with the NetApp AFF A90 — now certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. Purpose-built for AI Centers of Excellence, this solution delivers the performance, scalability, and intelligent data management needed to accelerate your most demanding AI workloads.
Go faster with unmatched performance and massive scale. NetApp AFF A-Series systems turbocharge mission-critical workloads of all sizes with up to 40M IOPs, up to 1TB/s throughput, always-on data reduction, and proven 99.9999% availability.
Leverage the industry’s richest data services and future-proof infrastructure to build an AI-ready ecosystem that lowers the cost of entry to AI-driven insights. Seamlessly manage, protect, and mobilize data across hybrid cloud at the lowest cost.
Protect your valuable data with real-time, AI/ML-based ransomware detection, designed for 99%+ accuracy, guaranteed recovery, and integrated business continuity. All on the only hardened enterprise storage validated for top-secret data[2].
Experience seamless upgrades, hybrid cloud flexibility, and a future-proof environment that adapts to your changing needs.
Future-proof your storage
Rely on NetApp always-on storage efficiency to deliver better effective capacity for your workloads. All backed by our Storage Efficiency Guarantee.[3]
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Trust NetApp to protect your valuable data from ransomware attacks. Our advanced security measures keep your data safe and recoverable, giving you peace of mind.[3]
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Thor Motor Coach’s strategic imperative is to keep things simple — yet intentional. The company modernized with NetApp’s all-flash storage, consolidated servers on Cisco, and virtualized everything with VMware, which increased performance and reduced costs by 30% per year.
“Given the exponential demand for CG animated content, we are excited for the unprecedented performance and flexibility of the new NetApp AFF A-Series, and how it will support our most active, business-critical production data.”
Skottie Miller, Technology Fellow for Systems Architecture, DreamWorks Animation
The NetApp AFF A-Series provides the foundation for SysAdminOK’s 1PB storage infrastructure and VMware environment, composed of hundreds of hypervisors and thousands of virtual machines.
NetApp’s best-in-class storage for block, file, and object means you can flexibly scale without incurring new hardware or configuration costs—all with a single subscription.
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On-premises or across your hybrid or multicloud ecosystems, NetApp ONTAP® software supports your business, reduces risk, saves time, and optimizes your budget.
Get seamless data management
With Trident you can automatically provision AFF A-Series storage with advanced data protection features for your Kubernetes applications.
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| AFF A1K | AFF A90 | AFF A70 | AFF A50 | AFF A30 | AFF A20 | |
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| Maximum scale-out | 24 nodes | 24 nodes | 24 nodes | 24 nodes | 8 nodes | 6 nodes |
| Maximum SSD | 2880 | 2880 | 2880 | 1440 | 288 | 144 |
| Max Effective capacity[4] | 330PB | 330PB | 330PB | 185PB | 36.2PB | 18.8PB |
| Controller chassis form factor | 2x2U | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots | 4U; 48 internal SSD slots | 2U; 24 internal SSD slots | 2U; 24 internal SSD slots | 2U; 24 internal SSD slots |
| Power consumption (median) | 2718W[5] (with NS224) |
1950W[5] | 1232W[5] | 512W[5] | 495W[5] | 432W[5] |
Tech specs of previous models can be found here |
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