The SC6100 uses seven (7) fans per controller, totaling fourteen (14) fans per chassis for system cooling. Cold air enters from the front of the chassis, cooling the SSDs, mid plane, and controllers. The air is directed within each controller to the CPU and DIMMs via air ducts then moves on to cool the PCIe cards, BBU and PSU. Finally, the hot air leaves the chassis from the rear.

Airflow management design system:

• N+1 cooling redundancy allows for minimal impact on thermal performance in the event of a single fan failure.

• An Over Temperature Protection (OTP) mechanism protects the system by throttling CPU and memory if critical temperatures are exceeded.

• The system employs an adaptive cooling strategy to optimize power usage and reduce noise.

Below are the SC6100 cooling specifications:

• The cooling system's thermal solution maintains the components within thermal limits up to 35°C at 900m altitude.
• N+1 cooling redundancy allows for minimal impact on thermal performance in the event of a single fan failure.
• An Over Temperature Protection (OTP) mechanism protects the system by throttling CPU and memory if critical temperatures are exceeded.
• The system will support N+1 cooling redundancy. When any one system fan motor fails, thermal throttle and fan speed boost is allowed to minimize the effects of the failure, the remaining fans should still maintain all the key components within their thermal specification limits. Fan fail case is represented as any one fan motor fail.
• Over temperature protection (OTP) mechanism is enabled to protect the system. If warning sensor threshold is violated, the system will send out the warning information to the user. If critical sensor threshold is violated, CPU and memory will be throttled to lower power consumption to prevent components temperature going up further.
• Provide adaptive cooling strategy to save cooling power and reduce acoustic noise emission.