NetApp AFF A-Series
Accelerate your mission-critical workloads, including VMware, databases, and AI with high-performance, ultra-secure unified data storage for any data type and any app.
AI at Scale: NetApp AFF A90 Powers NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
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.
Power and protect all your workloads
Speed mission-critical apps Up to 40M IOPS and up to 1TB/s throughput in a single cluster
Drive data-intensive workloads Up to 40M IOPS and up to 1TB/s throughput in a single cluster
Real-time ransomware detection
Powerful storage
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.
Data-driven intelligence
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.
The most secure storage on the planet
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 dataCheck out our certifications here: www.netapp.com/esg/trust-center/compliance/.
Uplevel your storage experience
NetApp’s unstoppable momentum
In the same year Gartner® named NetApp a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms, we were recognized as a Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice. Now, we’re ranked #1 in Hybrid Cloud Storage in the Critical Capabilities report.
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IT Associate in the Education Industry gives NetApp AFF A-Series 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ Primary Storage Platforms (Transitioning to Enterprise Storage Platforms) Market.
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Senior Engineer in the Consumer Goods Industry gives NetApp AFF A-Series 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ Primary Storage Platforms (Transitioning to Enterprise Storage Platforms) Market.
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Storage Administrator in the Manufacturing Industry gives NetApp AFF A-Series 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ Primary Storage Platforms (Transitioning to Enterprise Storage Platforms) Market.
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Senior Analyst in the Manufacturing Industry gives NetApp AFF A-Series 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ Primary Storage Platforms (Transitioning to Enterprise Storage Platforms) Market.
Thor Motor Coach
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.
DreamWorks Animation
“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
SysAdminOK
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.
Simplify your storage journey
AFF A-Series technical specifications
Although each AFF A-Series model features the same NetApp ONTAP software, they differ in hardware capabilities. Find out which model best fits your data needs.
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| AFF A1K | AFF A90 | AFF A70 | AFF A50 | AFF A30 | AFF A20 | |
| 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 capacityEffective capacity based on 5:1 storage efficiency ratios with the maximum number of SSDs installed; space savings vary depending on workload and use cases. | 185PB | 185PB | 185PB | 92PB | 19.3PB | 9.3PB |
| 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) | 2718WEstimate under typical customer condition—awaiting field data for the new product. (with NS224) |
1950WEstimate under typical customer condition—awaiting field data for the new product. | 1232WEstimate under typical customer condition—awaiting field data for the new product. | 512WEstimate under typical customer condition—awaiting field data for the new product. | 495WEstimate under typical customer condition—awaiting field data for the new product. | 432WEstimate under typical customer condition—awaiting field data for the new product. |
| Tech specs of previous models can be found here | ||||||
