An informational reason for writing this article was official support from Qsan for connecting third-party expansion shelves to storage systems. This fact markedly distinguishes Qsan from other vendors and even to some extent breaks the usual position in the storage market. However, simply writing about the Qsan + storage bundle of the “alien” JBOD seemed not so interesting to us, rather than touching on the partially holistic topic of using third-party components.
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