On 30th September 2025, Infinidat has announced major updates to the InfiniBox G4 platform by expanding capacity, efficiency, and protocol support into its flagship storage solution.
Osmium Data Group analysts Arjan Timmerman and Max Mortillaro were briefed by Eric Herzog, CMO Infinidat, about this fall’s announcements.
InfiniBox / InfiniBox SSA Updates
Both the hybrid InfiniBox and all-flash InfiniBox SSA systems are benefiting from various updates. Worth noting, all devices now come with 12x 100 GbE support.
InfiniBox & InfiniBox SSA SAS-4 Models
Both hybrid and SAS-based InfiniBox SSA systems are now based on SAS-4 enclosures. These achieve a higher density, now supporting 78 drives compared to 60-drive enclosures previously available, all within the same form factor. With those upgrades, hybrid systems now scale up to 33PB effective capacity in a single rack, doubling the capacity of the largest InfiniBox in the same footprint.
Hybrid systems (InfiniBox G4 F84SH) are now delivered with 24 TB hard drives; InfiniBox G4 SSA F1400 SAS-based all-flash systems are now delivered in a 14U form factor, starting at 155 TB.
InfiniBox SSA G4
Small form factor G4 SSA systems are now available with NVMe drive enclosures and interconnects. Notably, the F24Nx model, sized at 11RU, starts with 77 TB usable capacity, based on TLC flash.
Infinidat is also introducing higher capacity NVMe systems that will be based on 30 TB & 60 TB NVMe QLC flash devices. The company also intends to introduce 122 TB QLC flash in 1H 2026.
When asked about the potential delays compared to the competition, Infinidat emphasized the unique three controller architecture of InfiniBox systems, the need for dual-ported NVMe devices, and the necessity to thoroughly test the reliability of those devices to be in line with the overall highly reliable architecture and guarantees offered by Infinidat.
Overall, the improved network interface backend on new SSA G4 systems, coupled with NVMe TLC can lead to up to 2x better throughput and 32% better overall performance compared to the previous generation.
New Kids On The Block: S3 support and NFSv4.1
From a protocol perspective, there’s a new kid on the block (no pun intended), and its name is object storage. InfuzeOS now provides a fully unified protocol experience with block, file, and object storage. In addition, Infinidat also introduced NFSv4.1 support to the latest InfuzeOS release.
Both S3 and NFSv4.1 will be available to all Infinidat customers.
In addition, the company announced various replication upgrades, comprising of multi-target asynchronous replication, and up to 6x replication speed increases over previous implementations. This allows organizations to achieve low RPO async replication requirements for secondary sites (as low as 4 seconds) without performance impact.
Other Announcements
Capacity Upgrade Changes
Infinidat SSA offerings are now moving from pre-determined fixed percentages (60%, 80%, 100%) to smaller increments per upgrade, providing more granularity to customers and lower cost per upgrade.
Osmium Data Group understands that 60% remains the minimum population baseline, but that increments within the remaining 40% range will be more flexible.
Sustainability & Efficiency Improvements
Infinidat already achieves commendable successes in that space thanks to highly dense storage systems combined with architectural energy efficiencies. These are further improved on the new F24ST, with 45% reduction in power per effective PB over its predecessor.
At the same time, the company is increasing capacity on smaller footprints, helping it achieve a higher storage density and thus reducing its Watts/TBu (Watts consumed per usable TB), compared both to previous generations and also against its direct competition, where it achieves from 2.8x to 6.9x power efficiency on comparable capacities.
Worth noting, Osmium Data Group has already broadly covered Infinidat key differentiators in a commissioned white paper titled “Driving Green IT Excellent with Infinidat“.
This white paper is available free of charge on Infinidat’s website and covers architectural considerations, environmental factors, regulatory initiatives, as well as storage architecture and management requirements.
The Osmium Perspective
Although capacity and performance improvements are typically to be expected, it’s worth mentioning that the introduction of object storage is a major milestone for Infinidat, since it allows the company to deliver enterprise-grade performance and durability to customers at a compelling price point, especially with its hybrid InfiniBox systems.
The introduction of NVMe flash on InfiniBox SSA systems, first with TLC 3D NAND, then in the near future with QLC 3D NAND will be beneficial to customers, with increased capacity and improved density.
“Infinidat has once again advanced enterprise storage by offering high-end storage capabilities in a compact size with reduced energy consumption. This strengthens the impressive business and technical value that Infinidat already provides.”
Arjan Timmerman – Co-Founder at Osmium Data Group
With these announcements, Infinidat allows customers to extract additional value from systems deployed in production via software upgrades and protocol additions.
In addition, the company is future-proofing its hardware portfolio by strengthening its all-flash array range and significantly improving network throughput, while remaining true to its robust and cost-affordable (and now denser) hybrid storage architecture.
