W9132V25S1730 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.pdf

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GRL Custom Workstation Federal contract opportunity
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W9132V25S1730
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This document is a Questions and Answers (Q&A) file for solicitation W9132V25S1730, addressing technical requirements for storage specifications in a custom workstation. The Q&A clarifies storage requirements, specifically confirming that the solicitation requires 16TB of total storage in addition to an existing 8TB NVMe drive. The response indicates that either a 15.36TB NVMe SSD or 16TB total SATA SSD would be acceptable, with storage in a RAID0 configuration being technically acceptable to meet the requirement.

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April 24, 2025

W9132V25S1730 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Question

1. Under the Technical Requirement Section, this workstation lists 16TB SATA III SSD Storage.

There is no single SATA III SSD storage that is 16TB in size.

Do you mean HDD (Hard Disk Drive) instead of SSD (Solid State Drive)?

Or

Do you mean NVMe (not SATA) SSD storage? If so, would a 15.36TB drives are used to Provide a 16TB usable SATA SSD storage? If so, would a RAID 0 suffice?

Or

Is the end user asking for a RAID solution in which multiple SATA SSD drives are used to provide

A 16TB usable SATA SSD storage? If so, would a RAID 0 suffice? Or is fault tolerance of RAID 5

Required?

Answer

1. We require 16TB of total storage in addition to the 8TB NVMe Drive.

To be specific, from the options presented, we would specify either the 15.36TB NVMe SSD or 16TB total SATA SSD.

Storage in RAID0 configuration to both be technically acceptable.

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