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PowerVault MD1000 Direct Attached Storage

 
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High capacity server storage expansion

 
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PowerVault™ MD1000 is a 3Gb/s serial attached SCSI (SAS) expansion enclosure that offers seamless capacity expansion for existing PoweVault MD3000 and MD3000i arrays.

  • Expand with up to two enclosures behind the PowerVault MD3000 or MD3000i
  • Enables mixing SAS and serial ATA (SATA) drives in a single enclosure
  • Fifteen 3.5" drives in just 3U of rack space

PowerVault MD1000 DIrect Attached Storage Array
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PowerVault MD1000 Series Expansion Enclosures

Dell PowerVault MD1000 storage expansion enclosure scales from 15 to 45 drives when 3 units are daisy-chained

Simple Server Expansion for Capacity

The PowerVault MD1000 direct attached storage array leverages higher capacity 3.5" drives and supports mixing both SAS and SATA drives within a single enclosure making it ideal for high-capacity applications. The modular design enables simple expansion, behind a PowerEdge RAID Controller 5/E and 6/E (PERC5/E and PERC6/E), up to 3 enclosures or 45 drives per RAID port. Or expand your existing PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i external controller based storage arrays by daisy chaining 2 additional PowerVault MD1000 enclosures for a total of 45 drives. The versatility of the PowerVault MD1000 external RAID storage enables you to configure the specific combination of storage resources you need now, and add more storage volume later, while ensuring life-cycle and usability of your hardware for the long-term.
 

15K SAS

 

Excellent Drive Flexibility

The PowerVaultTM MD family enables organizations to mix SAS and SATA drives delivering excellent flexibility to align data requirements with drive capabilities, speed, capacity and cost, to help optimize your storage environment.

SAS for Performance

SAS can deliver the speed, performance and reliability to satisfy mainstream single server applications. SAS performance makes it ideal for demanding server applications such as email or database applications that store active and frequently changing information.

NEW Nearline SAS

- Performance of SAS, Capacities of SATA
The new 7.2K RPM SAS drives leverage the performance efficiencies of SAS making it ideal for customer who are looking for the low cost per GB but can't sacrifice performance. In everyday usage situations customers can see up to a 30% performance increase with the 7.2 RPM SAS drive over the 7.2 RPM SATA drives.

 

SATA for Capacity

SATA for Capacity

SATA disk drives deliver a compelling cost-per-Gigabyte alternative to SAS. SATA drives are ideal high capacity applications where data is accessed and modified less frequently, such as digital imaging, file archiving, audio/video storage, or back-up to disk applications.


NEW Energy Efficient SATA - - Superior GB per Watt Solution
The new 5.4K RPM SATA drive offers customers a high capacity, energy efficient alternative to traditional SATA drives. Ideal for capacity intensive applications in a power constrained environments. This 5.4K RPM SATA drive can reduce power consumption up to 30% with less than a10% degradation in random I/O performance over some 7.2K RPM SATA drives. 

PowerVault MD1000 storage enclosure is designed to work seamlessly with Dell PowerEdge Servers using PERC 5-E RAID

PERC RAID Controller

The PERC RAID controller leveraged by PowerVault MD1000 external RAID storage array is the best available in-class PCI Express interface, offering excellent performance for enterprise. The RAID configuring on the PowerVault MD1000 enables your software to recognize the entire array as a single unit, regardless of how many disks you have activated for storage in the array, helping to increase reliability and fault tolerance. PERC 6/E offers:
  • Redundant connections offering failover protection, static load balancing and performance improvement over non-redundant path systems.
  • Enclosure firmware and hard disk drive firmware updated to be done while the system is online, reducing the impact to critical storage systems and enabling “on the fly” updates.
  • Advanced import enables administrators to import, or migrate, disk arrays created by a different PERC controller while the server remains online. The controllers can even import partial, or degraded, arrays and provide array preview capabilities before import to further enhance data serviceability.
  • Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60.

Dell PowerVault direct attached storage is engineered to work optimally with Dell PowerEdge servers. Dell OpenManage™ Storage Manager software can manage both the external array and internal storage within the server itself. Streamlining storage management through a single, common interface helps reduce resource load on the system, and is easier to navigate for the user as well.

RAID

  • PERC 6/E supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60.

    PERC 5/E supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50.

Storage

  • Hard Drives

    Up to fifteen (15) 1-inch-by-3.5-inch SAS hot-pluggable 3.0 Gbps hard drives, at speeds of 10,000 or 15,000 RPM
    Up to fifteen (15) 1-inch-by-3.5-inch SATA II hot-pluggable 3.0 Gbps hard drives, at speeds of 7,200 RPM

    Drive speeds and capacities

    SAS Drives

    15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 73GB, 146GB, 300GB, 450GB and 600GB
    10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 300GB, 400GB* and 600GB
    Nearline SAS (7,200 RPM) drives available in 500GB, 750GB* or 1TB*

    SATA Drives

    7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 250GB, 500GB, 750GB* or 1TB*
    Energy efficient SATA II (5,400 RPM) drives available in 1TB* and 2TB*

    Maximum Capacity (per enclosure)
     
    30TB using fifteen 2TB* 5,400 RPM SATA II disk drives in one enclosure

    Expansion Capabilities

    PERC RAID Controller enables expansion to 6 enclosures

    More Details on PERC

    PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i enable expansion to 3 enclosures

Connectivity

  • Support for either of the following configurations:

    Unified mode (single path) for daisy chaining of up to 6 enclosures per PERC 6/E controller (3 enclosures per port, single path)

    Unified mode (redundant path) for daisy chaining up to 3 enclosures per PERC 6/E controller (3 enclosures connected to both ports via redundant path cabling)

    Split mode with dual Enclosure Management Modules providing direct connectivity to drives 0 though 6 and a separate connectivity to drives 7 through 14

Management

  • Enclosure Management Modules (EMM):

    1 or 2 modules
    A second EMM provides redundant enclosure management capability

Back-Panel Connectors

  • SAS connectors (per EMM):

    1 12.0 Gbps SAS (SFF 8470) "IN" connector for connection to the host
    1 12.0 Gbps SAS (SFF 8470) "OUT" connector for expansion to an additional enclosure

    Serial connector (per EMM):

    1 6-pin UART mini-DIN connector (for factory use only

LED Indicators

  • Front panel:

    1 two-color LED indicator for system status
    2 single-color LED indicators for power and split mod

    Hard-drive carrier:

    1 single-color activity LED
    1 two-color LED status indicator per drive

    EMM:

    3 two-color LED status indicators: one each for the two EMM SAS ports and one for the EMM status

    Power supply/cooling fan module:

    3 LED status indicators for power supply status, power supply/fan fault and AC status

Power

  • Wattage:
    488 W maximum continuous; 550 W peak

    Heat dissipation:
    200 W

    Voltage:
    100-240 V rated (actual 90-264 V)

    Frequency:
    47-63 Hz

    Amperage:
    7.2 A at 100 V, 3.6 A at 200 V

    Available Hard Drive Power (per slot):

    Supported consumption
    Up to 1.3 A at +12 V; Up to 1.5 A at +5 V

Chassis

  • Height:
    13.11 cm (5.16 inches)

    Width:
    44.63 cm (17.57 inches)

    Depth:
    48.01 cm (18.9 inches)

    Weight:
    35.37 kg (78 lb) (maximum configuration)

Environmental Operating Conditions

  • Temperature:
    Operating: 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F)
    Storage: -40° to 65°C (-40° to 149°F)

    Relative humidity:
    Operating: 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
    Storage: 5% to 95% (non-condensing)

    Altitude:
    Operating: -16 to 3048 m (-50 to 10,000 ft)
    Storage: -16 to 10,600 m (-50 to 35,000 ft)

    BTU per hour:
    1430

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