Rockstor Storage Servers

Rockstor Personal Cloud Server is a powerful local alternative to public cloud storage that mitigates the cost and risks of public cloud storage.

Fully Compatible Rockstor Storage Appliances

A lot of important data is stored on laptops, desktops, mobile devices, external hard-drives and various cloud storage services and the data footprint continues to increase as users generate and access more data.



Cyberstore
Open Storage Servers

  • Open Standards Hardware combined with Rockstor Software
  • Transformational Approach used by Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and others
  • No Vendor Lock-In
  • 3 Year Warranty
  • Multi-Vendor Networking
  • Compatible with all major Storage OS's


Our range of CyberStore enterprise-grade storage appliances are fully compatible with Rockstor storage OS.
Rockstor Storage Appliances

Rockstor Personal Cloud Server is a powerful local alternative to public cloud storage that mitigates the cost and risks of public cloud storage.

  • Fully Compatible Storage Appliances
  • Pre-Configured with Rockstor
  • Fully Tested
  • Licence Cost:
    Free
CyberStore 212S 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 12 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
12 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
240TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £3,452
Configure
CyberStore 212S-NVMe 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 12 Drive Bays, SAS/SATA Rackmount Storage Server with 4x NVMe

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
12 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
320TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £3,715
Configure
CyberStore 224S 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 24 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
2.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
24 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
360TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £4,034
Configure
CyberStore 316S 12GB/s Storage Server

3U, 16 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
3U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
16 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
320TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £4,187
Configure
CyberStore 424S 12GB/s Storage Server

4U, 24 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
24 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
480TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £4,335
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CyberStore 472S 12GB/s Storage Server

Ultra High-Density 4U, 72 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
2.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
72 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
1.1PB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £4,987
Configure
CyberStore 436S 12GB/s Storage Server

Large Capacity 4U, 36 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
36 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
720TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £5,139
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Broadberry CyberStore Xeon SP2-490-G3

Ideal for HPC, Big Data & Analytics. 3x PCI-E 4.0 x16 expansion slots. Redundant power supply. 90 3.5"/2.5" Hot-swap SAS3/SATA3 drives, 2x Fixed slim SATA SSD, 2x NVMe M.2.

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
90 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
1.9PB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with Rockstor
from: £10,526
Configure

Rockstor

Rockstor is a great choice of storage software to run on your Cyberstore Storage Appliance. While not as big a name as some of the other options in the market, Rockstor is one of best performing and most adaptable storage software solutions on the market. There are a number of advantages you get that make Rockstor a great choice, one of the biggest being the ease of use.

You can manage your Broadberry CyberStore storage applaice using Rockstor's very simple web browser GUI from where you can perform a number of management tasks including scheduling snapshots, resizing volumes, replicating shares and a lot more. Common and popular NAS protocols like NFS, SFTP, Samba and AFP are supported by default.  

If you decide to configure your CyberStore storage appliance with RockStor, you have the option of having a qualified Broadberry engineer install and configure it for you, or if you prefer you can do it yourself via a Linux ISO file and straightforward GUI installer. Installation is quick and once its completed, you can do all your management from a web browser. The interface has a number of different features to help you like guides, wizards and tooltips. Its simple design makes it great at managing even complicated storage environments. It also allows you either manually take snapshots or to schedule them to automatically happen periodically all from the web-ui.

Rockstors file system BTRFS provides a number of advanced features. These include data protection, self-healing and compression.

Rockstor is one of the first Linux, BTRFS based NAS distributions that aids users in creating and maintaining a NAS server with very little effort. Maintenance is done completely through the web user interface, which is simple to use and doesn't require you to be any kind of Linux expert.

Rockstor enables you to create your own personal cloud server. It severely reduces the cost of storing data, especially if you are storing huge amounts.

You don't have to be around any physical hardware. You can simply access your data from wherever you are, whether you're on your local network or not. All you need is a device and an internet connection and you can access the huge amounts of data that can be stored of your personal cloud server. Moving data between the cloud, your devices and your CyberStore storage appliance wunning Rockstar storage software is a breeze and onceyour data's in the cloud you're protected from physical theft and loss of data through misplacing physical storage. You can directly manage your privacy and your performance options and enjoy effective capacity scaling.

Rockstor is open source and is freely distributed. You can enjoy complete control over the TCO of your software, as you will be able to make installation decisions with your desired requirements in mind. Its rare that there would be any factor affecting performance and cost that would be outside your own control. You decide how to balance performance with costs while finding the perfect ratio for your needs. Performance and capacity are also scalable at any time.

Data can be very efficiently replicated from one instance to another. If there is another storage appliance running Rockstor at a different location, key data can be simply backed up to it and kept safe. Moving data between remote offices is enabled and you are able to enjoy quick access to any replicated data.

Rockstor enables you to quick build your own custom storage platform and supports a wide range of commodity hardware, which is why you'll get full compatibility with the Broadberry CyberStore appliance. You can use its APIs to provision resources and you can customise BTRFS to your needs.

Rockstor is an open source software, which is a huge factor in how great the community around it is. There are a lot of great benefits of using software with such a strong community around it. If you ever have any issues you can get a lot of support as you have a large group of experienced and technically minded people who are available to help you and advise you for free.

As its open source software, you won't have to worry about vendor locking as well as ensuring the code is higher quality as its visible to everyone and is customisable to better fit your exact requirements.

Your Rockstor experience can be enhanced even further through the use of plugins. These plugins, known as 'rock-ons', can greatly increase the capabilities of your system. They are stored in the rockon-registry, and there are a number of choices to pick from.  

Feature status notes
Online pool management Beta
Online share management Beta
CoW snapshots Beta
sharing via NFS(v3 and v4) Prod Network File System cross platform enterprise file access
sharing via SMB Beta Also known as CIFS / Samba
sharing via AFP ie Time Machine Beta Apple Filing Protocol
WebDAV Planned
SFTP Beta Secure File Transport Protocol
Asynchronous share replication Beta Replicate shares between multiple Rockstor appliances
WebUI Prod Efficient management through Chrome browser
SSH Prod Standard bash shell
RESTful API Prod Integrate applications with Rockstor
Active directory Beta
LDAP Prod Lightweight Directory Access
NIS Prod Network Information System
NTP client Prod Set system time from NTP server
SNMP Beta Enterprise monitoring facility
S.M.A.R.T Beta Disk health information system
Docker based Plugin system Beta We call these Rock-ons
Critical event alerts Beta Via email notification system
Scheduled tasks Beta Snapshots and scrubs
Config Backup and Restore Beta For recovery / migration use
UPS support via NUT Beta Configure a UPS from the GUI

You can find your perfect Cyberstore Storage Server powered by Rockstor right here. Broadberry are trusted to provide high quality storage servers to some of the world's largest organisations from BBC to NASA and CERN. With almost 3 decades of experience in this industry, we have provided storage servers to some of the largest organisations on Earth. Our list of clients includes Sky, NASA, Toshiba, Tesco, the BBC and many more.

Our range of Cyberstore Storage Servers includes a very special feature. Our servers are configured to be fully compatible with all major storage server software on the market. We do not vendor lock, so when you order from us you will be able to use whatever 3rd party hardware you choose, giving you the freedom to choose the hardware that best fits your requirements.

Broadberry storage servers deliver huge value and award winning quality, constantly outperforming the competition in performance/price ratio.


The Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade storage servers are designed and built for a wide-range of storage applications.

Completely customisable from processing to storage type and capacity, to operating system - the CyberStore range is your go-to storage platform.

Used by the World's Largest Organisations

The CyberStore range of storage servers are used by the world's largest organisations from the BBC, to the CERN project, governement institutions, universities and much more.

Multi
Award-Winning

Year-after-year, the Broadberry CyberStore range of unified storage appliances has beaten the likes of Dell and HPE to be crowned "Best Storage Appliance" by PC Pro magazine.

Outstanding
Value

When compared to the likes of DELL, HPE, EMC etc, the Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade unified storage appliances is up to 60% cheaper, although using the same quality components such as Seagate drives and Kingston RAM.

Compatible with your
Favourite Software

The Bradberry CyberStore range has been built from industry-leading commodity hardware, and carefully designed to ensuure full compatibility with leading storage operating systems and database engines.


Lower Cost, Same Components

Broadberry enterprise storage appliances are on average 86% lower cost than EMC and 55% lower cost than DELL although built using the same leading-brand server components such as Intel processors and Samsung memory. HPE hard drives are rebadged Toshiba enterprise-class drives, the exact same models as found in Broadberry storage appliances.

Hard Drive Caddies Included

When you buy a Broadberry storage appliance all drive bays are supplied with caddies - so if in 6 months time you decide to expand the storage you can source it freely from the marketplace or ourselves if you wish. The only way to add hard drives to HPE servers is to buy the drives along with caddies from HPE for 200% the price of Broadberry's price.

No Ongoing Licence Costs

Broadberry storage appliances come with enterprise-grade features like IPMI included, whereas HPE charge large fees for perpetual licences for the same features.

Instant, Accurate Quotations

Our website allows you to configure your server online with accurate prices, as opposed to NetApp who require several face-to-face meetings with them before they'll give you a price.

Market Moving Away from Tier 1 Vendors

Over recent years there's been a massive move from the world's largest organisations such as Google to purchase their servers from the likes of Broadberry rather than DELL and HPE. This move is fuelled by the rise in commodity hardware.


Broadberry Celebrating Over 30 Years.


Engineer performing test.Our Rigorous Testing

Before leaving our UK workshop, all Broadberry server and storage solutions undergo a rigorous 48 hour testing procedure. This, along with the high-quality industry leading components ensures all of our server and storage solutions meet the strictest quality guidelines demanded from us.


Broadberry professional.Un-Equaled Flexibility

Our main objective is to offer great value, high-quality server and storage solutions, we understand that every company has different requirements and as such are able to offer un-equaled flexibility in designing custom server and storage solutions to meet our clients' needs.

Trusted by the World's Biggest Brands

We have established ourselves as one of the biggest storage providers in the UK, and since 1989 supplied our server and storage solutions to the world's biggest brands. Our customers include:

NASA, BBC, ITV, SONY, SKY, Disney, Google logos.