Dell PowerVault MD3220

Dell PowerVault MD3220

If cost per performance is a factor for your enterprise IT environment (though to be honest, if it ISN’T then you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself), the Dell PowerVault MD3220 storage offers the affordability and exceptional Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) performance that you’re looking for. In fact, as a 6 Gigabit (Gb) shared Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage array, there isn’t much that the Dell MD3220 couldn’t provide for the shared storage needs of enterprise datacenters. For instance, without the use of an expansion enclosure a Dell PowerVault MD3220 storage array can hold up to 24 2.5” SAS and Near-Line SAS (NL-SAS) Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid State Drives (SSDs). But with the use of a Dell PowerVault MD1200 or MD1220 expansion enclosure (like the spinach to the MD3220’s Pop-Eye), the MD3220 is able to hold up to 96 physical disk drives on certain RAID levels, or even all the way up to 256 virtual disk drives.

And with these powers combined, as well as the power of 4 x4 6Gb SAS host connectivity, Dell PowerVault MD3220 arrays are able to provide high availability data access for enterprise datacenters worldwide. Additionally, Dell MD3220 storage arrays offer high flexibility with both single and dual controller models. The single controller MD3220 models are able to support up to 4 servers when directly connected, whereas the dual controller MD3220 models can support up to 8 servers when directly connected in a non-High-Availability (HA) configuration but only 4 servers when connected in a HA configuration. Further add-ons to the Dell PowerVault MD3220 arrays that pack an additional punch, particularly when it comes to data protection, include snapshots, virtual disk copy and a high-performance tier firmware upgrade that even further enhances the I/O and throughput performance of the MD3220 arrays.