topic Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity in Spark Firewall (SMB)

Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

snowball14 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 04:06:59 GMT

May i know what is the storage capacity of the unit model 1570 and 1590? We already checked the datasheet, there's no information related to capacity unlike with quantum security gateway there's published information about the storage.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

PhoneBoy — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 08:07:01 GMT

Unlike the other Quantum appliances, these have Flash storage, and it’s designed for the OS image and a minimal amount of logs.
You can add an SD card or a USB drive for additional log storage.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

G_W_Albrecht — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:20:19 GMT

1570 / 90 / 1600 each have a 64 GB micro-SD card option. 1800 additionally has an internal 256 GB SSD.

My 1550 has 623.8MB left for logs.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

snowball14 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:08:33 GMT

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

snowball14 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:09:39 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. What is the built-in storage capacity of these appliance 1500 series?

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

PhoneBoy — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:58:04 GMT

As I said above, the built-in storage is minimal and you can add more via a USB drive or SD card.
On my 1590, the /logs partition is about 5GB, the /storage partition is about 8GB.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

snowball14 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:50:42 GMT

thank you 😁

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

Saul_Goodman — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:02:21 GMT

Hi PhoneBoy,

Can this be documented through an SK officially?

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

Chris_Atkinson — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:32:44 GMT

[Expert@Gateway-ID-XXXX]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 15 GB, 15758000128 bytes, 30777344 sectors
480896 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot StartCHS EndCHS StartLBA EndLBA Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1 320,0,1 639,3,16 20480 30777343 30756864 14.6G 83 Linux
Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot1: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
128 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

[Expert@Gateway-ID-XXXX]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 20.0M 6.6M 13.4M 33% /tmp
tmpfs 60.0M 20.0M 40.0M 33% /fwtmp
/dev/mmcblk1p8 4.7G 595.3M 3.9G 13% /logs
/dev/mmcblk1p11 7.8G 833.4M 6.6G 11% /storage
/dev/mmcblk1p6 692.7M 502.5M 139.7M 78% /pfrm2.0
tmpfs 20.0M 8.9M 11.1M 45% /tmp/log/local
tmpfs 500.0M 0 500.0M 0% /tetmp
[Expert@Gateway-ID-XXXX#

I would suggest to submit feedback on sk157412 if it's needed.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

melcon — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:19:53 GMT

How to setup the SD card for additional log storage? I can see my SD mounted as ext4 on /mnt/sd but "no one" is writing files there.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

Chris_Atkinson — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:36:18 GMT

For log storage it should function automatically per the below, if not please open a case with TAC to review.

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/SMB_R81.10.X/AdminGuides_Centrally_Managed/EN/Content/Topics/Viewing-Security-Logs.htm?Highlight=SD%20card

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

jennyado — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:00:09 GMT

Do you know what type of logs are stored on the microSD card?

We inserted a microSD into a 1600 appliance and I noticed that syslog_messages files contain archived messages.log data. However, there are also other folders that contain additional files, and I’m not sure what type of information they store or if there is any tool to properly view or analyze them.

Re: Quantum Spark - Storage Capacity

Tom_Hinoue — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:16:21 GMT

Security Logs and System Logs can be stored on an external SD card.

[cp.log] and its following pointer files structure is similar to the [fw.log] files you see on maintrain Gaia.
You will need Smart-1 (Smart Center) to import the files to have them in a visualized format.