Today we announce the new PowerScale Hybrid and Archive nodes – H710, H7100, A310 and A3100. These new platforms are fundamental to build an effective data lake and data warehouse towards a solid AI-ready strategy and complement the PowerScale all-flash series for truly TCO-optimized flexibility. The new platforms go beyond hardware upgrades; they expand the most flexible tier-aware scale-out storage portfolio in the industry.
Not all data is created equal. Training sets, logs, checkpoints and reference data each have unique performance and lifecycle needs. PowerScale gives you the choice to build your data center with solutions that cater to the value and needs of your data – be it Hybrid, Archive, Flash or all the above. Whether it’s blazing fast flash, a cost-efficient Archive or a mix with Hybrids, Dell helps you optimize storage economics with the broadest media choices in the industry.
How the New H & A Series Deliver Value
With the new hybrid and archive platforms, customers can seamlessly run their workloads that depend on or are best suited for HDD-based storage, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency for real-world AI data challenges.
Sustained Scale
AI-generated data is growing fast; a sustainable and reliable storage scalability is critical. PowerScale’s new platforms (H710, H7100, A310, A3100) provide enterprise-grade durability and petabyte-scale resilience for long-term data retention. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies like HAMR drives and higher-capacity HDDs that deliver up to 33% greater capacity¹ (coming soon in 2H2025), PowerScale ensures secure, accessible and cost-effective storage for cold and warm data, such as compliance logs or model checkpoints. In an AI-driven world, scalable infrastructure is critical and PowerScale delivers reliability and performance to meet these demands.
Right Data, Right Tier
With the PowerScale portfolio, your data goes exactly where it belongs. High-performance flash supports real-time analytics while cost-optimized HDD handles long-term retention or a balance of the two. Intelligent tiering moves data seamlessly across flash, hybrid and archive environments, eliminating silos and forced upgrades. This approach helps you optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) while maintaining performance, scale and simplicity. To truly optimize storage TCO based on the value of your data, PowerScale can deliver up to 50% lower $/GB than the closest flash-only competitor² to balance performance and cost.
From Archive to Active
Besides being used for cold storage, Archived data is often recalled for AI model retraining, compliance checks or rollback operations. The new Archive nodes, built with next-gen advancements like DDR5 memory, 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors and enhanced thermal architecture, deliver up to 56% faster performance³ compared to previous models. These hardware upgrades not only improve speed but also ensure reliability and efficiency when transitioning data from archive to active use. With features such as a unified namespace, native recall, inline compression and deduplication, your data is always ready to deliver optimal value whenever you need it.
The Power of Choice
That’s how you Drive TCO Advantage with the industry’s broadest media portfolio — optimized for every workload4. PowerScale’s continuous innovation further improves upon flexible policy-driven storage solutions for its customer and empowers you to align performance, capacity and cost intelligently, avoiding rigid models and unnecessary expenses.
For a deeper dive into the new Hybrid and Archive nodes please refer to the technical blog and please visit the PowerScale website to learn more about the complete PowerScale portfolio.
1 Based on post-RTS higher capacity HAMR drives coming soon (2H2025). May 2025
2 Based on Dell analysis, Jun. 2025. Dell pricing is based on PowerScale A3100L projected average discount pricing of usable capacity with 3 years of service included.
3 Based on preliminary streaming reads internal testing comparing A3000 vs A3100 running OneFS 9.10. May 2025
4 Based on Dell analysis of media options available on Dell PowerScale platforms and in branded unified file and object appliances from competitors. June 2025.
