Secondary Storage • Backup & Restore • VTL Archive • Made in Europe
Silent Bricks. Storage that protects against ransomware.
Zero Loss by Design
Designed without compromise to ensure no data is lost. and an air gap in all instances.
Immutable Storage
Immutable storage refers to storage technologies that protect stored data from subsequent alteration or deletion — where the decisive difference lies in whether this protection is enforced at the hardware level (cannot be circumvented) or at the software level (can be circumvented by administrators with sufficient rights).
Air Gap everywhere
A physical/electrical air gap on every storage medium. Effectively protects your data.
NVMe performance
Up to 768 TB of internal NVMe storage. Maximum performance for backup and recovery.
HDD cost-effectiveness
Up to over 6 PB of external disk storage. Maximum cost-effectiveness combined with high performance.
Managed Storage
All-inclusive CARE contract: up to 10 years of maintenance and support.
Made in Europe
Appliance from a German manufacturer. Managed with FAST LTA CARE.
Backup & Restore
Flexible backup storage offering maximum security and NVMe performance.
VTL with Random Access
Random access, security through redundancy, eliminates the need for a disk cache. Replace tape – now.
Companies, public authorities and organisations rely on Silent Bricks
Applications
The flexibility of the Silent Brick System allows it to be used in a variety of environments and applications – even within a single system.
Backups are the first targets of an attack; rapid recovery is the most important aspect following an attack.
Why Silent Bricks
Silent Bricks provide immutability and an air gap in every storage instance. NVMe-based Silent Brick Pro accelerates backup and restore.
Target groups
Companies with critical business data that cannot afford downtime following an attack. Government agencies and public sector organisations for which cloud backup is not an option.
Tape archives do not offer random access, have high maintenance costs and face an uncertain future in terms of compatibility.
why Silent Bricks
Silent Bricks can quickly replace tape libraries with modern VTLs as drop-in replacements, without any migration risks – including random access.
Target groups
Users looking for a technical alternative to their large tape library with a cache system, whether as a replacement or as an addition, e.g. for a second site.
Object storage is easy to integrate, scales well and offers built-in immutability through object locking.
why Silent Bricks
As a single-node S3 solution, Silent Bricks are often faster than expensive and complex multi-node systems. Ideal for local applications.
Target groups
Companies, organisations and public authorities that wish (or need) to store sensitive data locally and rely on S3 with immutability.
Even with a fast internet connection, transferring large amounts of data from one location to another can easily take hours or days. It is essential to prevent connection drops and man-in-the-middle attacks.
why Silent Bricks
The Silent Brick Pro is lightweight, compact and well protected by its aluminium casing, making it easy to transport. The up to 96 TB (gross) per SB Pro is also protected against data loss in the event of a fault thanks to redundancy.
Target groups
Companies, public authorities and organisations that need to transfer large volumes of data between locations on a regular basis (or on a one-off basis).
System architecture. Flexibel und modular.
The Silent Brick system is particularly flexible and future-proof thanks to the separation of the compute and storage components. For example, Silent Brick Max units from the previous generation can be transferred directly to the new X controller without the need for migration. Conversely, the new Silent Brick Max Air units can also be used with the G-series controller, including .
Air Gap
An air gap is the complete physical interruption of all network connections between a backup system and the rest of the IT infrastructure, so that the system has no addressable network interface in its offline state and is therefore unreachable by ransomware and attackers.
Controller X
The Controller X is the central hub of the Silent Brick system. Choose from models with no slots, or with 2 to 8 slots for NVMe storage. All models can be expanded via SAS with external HDD storage.
Applications
Without slots: VTL archive • Non-critical backup & recovery with air gap
With slots: Backup & recovery on NVMe and HDD with immutability and air gap • VTL archive with NVMe cache
Silent Brick Pro
The Silent Brick Pro is an NVMe storage solution designed for the slots on the Controller X. With 12 NVMe modules per unit, it delivers maximum performance and reliability through redundancy. The NVMe modules are hot-swappable.
Applications
Backup & Recovery with NVMe performance and a physical air gap • Single Node S3 for local object storage
Silent Brick Max Air
The Silent Brick Max Air is an external HDD storage solution for Silent Brick systems featuring a true (galvanic) air gap. With 12 SATA HDDs, it is protected against data loss through redundancy. The hard drives are hot-swappable.
Applications
Backup & recovery for large volumes of data with a true air gap • Single-node S3 for local object storage • VTL archives with up to 7+ petabytes.
CARE. A comprehensive, worry-free service for your storage.
We consider it our responsibility to protect your data from loss. Our storage systems are therefore designed from the outset to offer a long service life and low maintenance requirements. Should the worst come to the worst, the CARE maintenance contract provides you with comprehensive cover for up to 10 years at fixed rates. 24/7 support is also available on request.
Questions and answers
The Silent Brick system protects backup data through physical network isolation: once a backup job is complete, the Silent Brick Max Air disconnects from the network at the hardware level, meaning that the stored data can no longer be accessed by any connected system. The Silent Brick Pro can even be physically ejected and moved to a secure location. spreading across the network cannot find a path to access the isolated Silent Bricks — neither via network protocols nor via administrator accounts. Furthermore, immutability prevents backup versions that have already been written from being subsequently altered or deleted. Even if the production environment and primary backup are completely compromised, a verifiably intact recovery point remains intact.
Ransomware
Ransomware is malware that encrypts data on infected systems and demands a ransom for decryption — with the goal of forcing organizations and public bodies to pay by paralyzing their operations.
Cloud backups can be accessed via network connections — usually via API endpoints, which are often secured with the same login credentials as the rest of the IT infrastructure. If admin credentials are compromised by an attack, an attacker can, in many scenarios, also delete or encrypt cloud backups. A physical air gap, by contrast, means that after the write operation, there is no longer any network connection to the storage medium — neither logical nor physical.
The Silent Brick System is designed to serve as a backup destination for all common enterprise backup solutions that support standard protocols such as FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB or S3. Compatibility with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault, Acronis Cyber Protect, SEP Sesam and NovaStor NovaBackup has been explicitly tested and documented. There is no need to migrate existing backup software: the Silent Brick System is integrated into the existing solution as a new backup destination.
The restore speed depends on the chosen protocol, the network infrastructure and the volume of data to be restored — not on any additional decryption or unlocking procedure. As air-gapped targets function like regular backup targets once reconnected, the existing backup software transfers the restore job directly. FAST LTA recommends carrying out regular restore tests based on the Silent Brick system as part of the BC plan in order to provide verifiable evidence of the RTO.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery refers to the structured processes and technical measures that ensure IT systems can be restored within defined timeframes (RTO) with maximum data loss (RPO) after a severe failure — ransomware attack, hardware failure or data center outage.
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