Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System Support Matrix

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Supported expansion enclosures

ME5 Series storage systems can support a maximum of 336 drive slots depending on the base system and the additional expansion enclosures.

ME5012 and ME5024 storage systems support up to nine additional 2U (non-dense) ME412/ME424 expansion enclosures or three 5U (dense) ME484 expansion enclosures.
ME5012 and ME5024 storage systems do not support a combination of ME412/ME424 and ME484 expansion enclosures.
ME5084 storage systems support up to three 5U (dense) ME484 expansion enclosures.

ME5 Series storage systems do not support drives that have already been deployed either internally on an ME4 Series base system or on an expansion enclosure that has been used on an ME4 Series storage system. Deploying a drive on a system writes metadata to the drive that is not compatible between ME Series storage systems.

Table 1. Supported 2U (non-dense) expansion enclosures2U non-dense supported expansion enclosures
Enclosure Model	Minimum Firmware Version
ME412	5368
ME424	5368

Table 2. Supported 5U (dense) expansion enclosures5U dense supported expansion enclosures
Enclosure Model	Minimum Firmware Version
ME484	5368

NOTE:Expansion enclosures are not supported on ME5 Series storage systems with a single controller module.

NOTE:Expansion enclosure firmware is updated by the ME5 RAID controllers to the latest ME5 supported version.