Dell PowerVault MD1000 Direct Attached Storage Array Details

High Capacity Server Storage Expansion

PowerVault MD1000 is a 3Gb/s 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 SATA drives in a single enclosure
15 3.5 inch drives in just 3U of rack space

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Simple Storage Expansion for Capacity

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

The PowerVault MD1000 expansion 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 of your existing PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i external controller based arrays by daisy chaining 2 additional MD1000 enclosures for a total of 45 drives. The versatility of the PowerVault MD1000 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.

SAS drives are used for high performance storage

Excellent Drive Flexibility

The PowerVault^TM 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 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.