New original Dell PowerVault MD3 Storage Array Series 3800f/3820f SAN storage
Feture | MD3 SAS | MD3 10GBASE-T | MD3 Fibre Channel | ||
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
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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)
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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)
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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
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Dynamic Disk Pools | DDP available on all models, separate or parallel to traditional RAID
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OS support
| Microsoft® Windows®, VMware®, Microsoft Hyper-V®, Red Hat® and SUSE® |