Nexsan Readies NV12000 All-Flash Array With 3.2PB in 2RU

Nexsan is preparing an all-flash Unity NV12000 array that packs 3.2PB of raw capacity into a 2RU chassis and delivers up to 3 million IOPS from its x86 controllers. The company has not yet set a ship date. It disclosed the specifications as part of a broader product-line refresh under CEO Dan Shimmerman, who took charge after the Storcentric bankruptcy.

The NV12000 is a 26-drive, 2RU system. It supports 61.44TB and 122.88TB SSDs, according to information from the company. A fully expanded 10RU configuration with four expansion JBOFs reaches a maximum of 15.9PB raw. The array extends the Unity family, which spans block, file and object storage across the NV4000, NV6000 and NV10000 models on a PCIe Gen4 bus, supporting both SSD and HDD capacity.

What does the rest of the portfolio cover?

Nexsan sells three established product lines plus one new addition:

• E-Series: block-only SAN arrays in 2RU or 4RU chassis, accessing SSDs or HDDs over 1/10GbE iSCSI, 8/16/32Gb Fibre Channel and 12Gb SAS. Maximum capacity is 4.68PB. The line descends from an older, lower-density product called the Beast, which remains available.
• Unity: the NV-Series multi-protocol family, positioned for GPU-driven compute environments.
• Assureon: immutable HDD storage that sits logically behind the E-Series and Unity arrays for long-term, high-density retention.
• VHR-Series: launched in August, a hardened repository appliance purpose-built for Veeam environments. It delivers end-to-end data immutability and carries Veeam Ready Appliance status.

Nexsan qualifies conventional disk drives at its Derby, UK facility. It does not use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) or heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) drives today. The Derby qualification team is already testing HAMR disks, according to our understanding.

How did the company get here?

Nexsan was founded in 1999 and acquired by Imation in 2013 for around $120 million. Imation was itself acquired by Storcentric in 2018. Storcentric, led by Mihir Shah, assembled a mini-conglomerate that also bought Vexata, Drobo and Violin Memory. The group entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2022. Serene Investment Management bought it in February 2023.

Nexsan was the sole branded business survivor. Serene appointed Dan Shimmerman, a Serene investor and former CEO of Blueprint Software, as Nexsan's chief executive. The company is understood to be pleased to have exited the Storcentric debacle and returned to its roots. It ships storage arrays as components through value-added resellers and system builder partners, and it deliberately stays out of data management, AI pipeline pre-processing and complex cyber-resilience software.

Headquarters sit in Sunnyvale, with additional offices in Dorval, Canada, Derby in the UK, and Brazil.

What about pricing and the roadmap?

Nexsan offers fixed-price 30-day quotes to give partners and customers price stability amid turbulent flash price increases. Software licensing is all-inclusive.

The company is regarded as a steady, reliable supplier that adopts new technology as it enters the mainstream. On that basis, PCIe Gen6, disk drives of 30TB and greater, and possibly NVMe over Fabrics will be integrated as they mature.

Recent developments point to an expanding channel reach:

• August 2026: VHR-Series launch with Veeam Ready Appliance status.
• April 2026: partnership with Scale Computing to pair enterprise-grade external storage with simplified virtualization, aimed at retail, healthcare, manufacturing, education, government and other edge-heavy sectors.
• December 2025: Hammer agreed to distribute E-Series, Unity and Assureon products across Europe.
• May 2025: Unity NV4000 entry-level array launched for small and remote deployments.
• November 2024: CASA Software signed to distribute products in sub-Saharan Africa.

With the NV12000, Nexsan pushes all-flash density toward 15.9PB per system while holding quoted prices fixed for 30 days, a combination that will test demand as flash costs keep climbing.