The refurbished Cisco UCS C3160 56-Bay LFF 4U Dual-Node Dense Rack Server w/ Flex Bay is a high-capacity 4U platform built for teams that need serious storage density without giving up compute. With a dual-node design and support for up to four processors across the system, this is the kind of hardware you reach for when storage and processing need to live in the same box—and stay there reliably.
On the compute side, you're working with Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with a wide range of Silver, Gold, and Platinum options depending on how much horsepower you need. Where this system really shines, though, is storage. With 56 large-form-factor bays, you can mix and match SATA, SAS, and SSD drives to fit anything from bulk archival storage to faster-access datasets. The short version: it handles a lot of data, and it gives you flexibility in how you store it.
This is a workhorse platform that thrives in environments like:
- Backup and archival systems where sheer capacity matters more than anything else
- Media storage and content repositories that need room to grow quickly
- Big data environments managing large datasets locally
- Private cloud storage nodes handling both compute and dense storage
- Organizations consolidating multiple storage workloads into fewer systems
Management is handled through Cisco’s integrated tools, and the included Cisco UCS-S3260-DRAID RAID controller gives you hardware-level control over your storage setup. That means better performance tuning and data protection where it counts. Cooling and system design are built for dense deployments, so even fully loaded configurations stay manageable in a rack.
Each used Cisco UCS C3160 system is professionally refurbished, fully tested, and built to order based on your selections. You’re getting enterprise-grade Cisco hardware at a price point that makes large-scale storage projects a lot more realistic.
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