New DELL PowerVault MD3 series storage MD3820I storage SAN SAS

Number of drives/form factor

12/2U: MD3800f/MD3800i/MD3400

24/2U: MD3820f/MD3820i/MD3420

60/4U: MD3860f/MD3860i/MD3460/MD3060e

Drive types

SAS, NL-SAS, SSD, SED

3.5" drive options

SAS 15K RPM: 300GB, 450GB3 , 600GB3

NL-SAS 7.2K RPM: 500GB, 1TB3 , 2TB3 , 3TB3 , 4TB3 , 6TB, 8TB, 10TB

SAS 10K RPM: 600GB

SSD: 200GB, 400GB, 800GB (WI); 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB (MU); 800GB, 1.6TB (RI) (available with 3.5" HDD carriers)

2.5" drive options

SAS 15K RPM: 146GB3 , 300GB3 , 600GB3

SAS 10K RPM: 146GB, 300GB3 , 600GB3 , 900GB3 , 1.2TB3 , 1.8TB

NL-SAS 7.2K RPM: 500GB3 , 1TB3 , 2TB

SSD: 200GB, 400GB, 800GB (WI); 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB (MU); 800GB, 1.6TB (RI)

Expansion capabilities

Up to 192 drives using MD1200 and/or MD1220 expansion enclosures: MD3820f/MD3800f/MD3820i/MD3800i/MD3420/MD3400

Up to 180 drives using MD3060e dense enclosures: MD3860f/MD3860i/MD3460

Connection

4 x 12Gb SAS

2 x 10GBASE-T iSCSI and

2 x 12Gb SAS ports per controller

4 x 16Gb Fibre Channel and

2 x 12Gb SAS ports per controller

Host connectivity

Single controller: supports up to 4 servers

directly connected; Dual controller: supports

up to 8 servers directly connected in a on-HA

configuration or 4 servers in a HA configuration

Single or Dual controllers support up to 64 servers on 12-drive and 24-drive 2U arrays

Dual controllers on dense 60-drive 4U arrays

Single controller: 2GB, 4GB cache

Dual controller: 2GB, 4GB. 8GB cache

RAID levels

Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6; Up to 180/1924 physical disks per group in RAID 0, 10;

Up to 30 physical disks per group in RAID 5, 6; Up to 512 virtual disks; DDP7

Dynamic Disk Pools

DDP available on all models, separate or parallel to traditional RAID

OS support

Microsoft® Windows®, VMware®, Microsoft Hyper-V®, Red Hat® and SUSE®