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 100µs latency 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.