QSAN XN5 Series

The QSAN XN5 series is the flagship of the new dual-active NVMe unified line. Same 26-bay chassis platform as the [XF5 series](/vendors/qsan/products/xf5-series) block array, but configured for higher sustained IOPS and the lowest latency QSM 4 can deliver. For Australian enterprises running mission-critical workloads — virtualisation at scale, database hosting, low-latency file collaboration — the XN5226 is the unified-protocol option that doesn't force a separate SAN-plus-NAS purchase.

QSM 4 brings the full enterprise data-services suite to the array: WORM compliance, SED encryption at folder/pool/drive level, XMirror replication across geographies, public-cloud tier-out, snapshot and replication policies, deduplication and compression. The shared platform with XF5 means partners get an upper bound on performance from the XF5's published figures — 50,000 random-write IOPS at 100µs latency (100,000 at 200µs) on PCIe Gen4. Mirrored firmware HA delivers 99.9999%+ availability through controller events.

For tier-1 Australian enterprise primary storage, financial services back office, AI/ML training data lakes serving NFSv4 reads to GPU nodes alongside iSCSI targets to feature-store databases, and large MSPs with mixed-protocol enterprise tenants — the XN5 is QSAN's answer to NetApp AFF C-series and Dell PowerStore 1000T+ at price points 30–50% below.