Supermicro unveils 4U server with 160 NVMe bays

At FMS 2026 Supermicro showed the ASG-4116S-NU160R, a 4U server with 160 hot-swap 2.5-inch U.2 NVMe bays. Drives connect through PCIe switches at PCIe 4.0 x1 each, and the platform runs on a single AMD EPYC 9005 CPU with redundant 2600W Titanium power supplies.

• 160 U.2 NVMe bays in 4U versus the usual 24–48
• Each drive gets PCIe 4.0 x1 via PCIe switches instead of SAS expanders
• Single AMD EPYC 9005, up to 6TB DDR5 in 12 DIMM slots, three PCIe 5.0 x16 slots
• Two 2600W Titanium PSUs in 1+1 redundancy with hot-swap rear fans