
Flexible Shared Disk Storage
BlackPearl NAS with a scale-up architecture provides expandable enterprise-grade NAS storage. It can be deployed as either a standalone system or combined with additional software extensions as part of the BlackPearl platform. BlackPearl NAS is designed to provide secure, scalable storage for a variety of use cases, including backup, online shared storage, capacity offload, and more.
Benefits of BlackPearl NAS
Enterprise-Grade Data Protection
- Attack-hardened security improves ransomware resiliency
- Self-encrypting disks and multi-factor authentication provides additional security
Flexible for Many Workloads
- Designed for unstructured data
- Extensible to S3 storage with optional tape-out
Easily Expandable Bulk Storage
- Scale-up architecture allows low-cost expansion and growth
- Over 20PB in a single rack, expandable to hundreds of PB
Attack-Hardened Features
BlackPearl NAS has been designed to help protect and recover from ransomware attacks with its attack-hardened
feature set including:

BlackPearl NAS Use Cases




BlackPearl NAS Information
- NVMe and Disk pool options
- CIFS or NFS shares with AD/LDAP integration
- Hardware options to support specific workflow performance needs MB/sec to GB/sec
Self-Protecting Attack-Hardened Storage
- Multi-factor authentication, triggered snapshots, multi-site replication
- ZFS designed for data reliability and data integrity
- Optional self-encrypting drives for additional security
Cost-Effective Scale-Up Architecture
- Add capacity without adding nodes – expand existing pools dynamically
- 80TB to 20PB per system
- Hot expandable at any time
For complete specifications, please contact your Spectra Representative
* In a 42U rack
BlackPearl S3
Delivers native on-prem S3 storage with replication to the cloud for Disaster Recovery
BlackPearl Nearline Gateway
Provides a gateway to local object storage disk and/or tape with optional replication to public cloud
On-Premises Glacier*
Integrates with applications that support AWS Glacier to offer object storage disk and tape as an on-prem glacier tier of storage
View How BlackPearl NAS Works
Watch this video to learn about Spectra’s BlackPearl — a multi-purpose hybrid storage platform that easily and cost effectively scales up as object and file volumes grow.