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Recommendation for an Entry or Midrange Mixed disk storage
Hello, I am doing research to buy a storage for our company. PowerStore or an entry-level or mid-level storage can you give me a storage recommendation that I can use by adding the following disks ? Or is there a mixed use ? In the form of SAS Sata and Nvme. I am waiting for your valuable information on this subject.
Dell Ent NVMe CM6 RI 1.92TB X 2
Dell Ent NVMe PM1735a MU 6.4TB X 4
DELL Sas SATA - ST1200MM088
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October 30th, 2023 13:49
Hi,
Thanks for your question.
It looks like these drives are for Poweredge and not Powerstore. https://dell.to/40frupc https://dell.to/3QgmSKS under the compatible systems. Your best option is to contact sales and they can tell you which models will best suit your needs. https://dell.to/40dAgnD
Let us know if you have any additional questions.
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October 30th, 2023 22:33
The PowerStore is a Mid-Range product. Even with the downsized 500T its way over the top when compared to entry-level SANs like the PowerVault ME5 (5024). Because iam a Dell Partner we have a dozen or more in the field. 3/4 of them are the 500T and most of them running as direct attached (8 Hosts with FC or 10? with iSCSI) and they running great in a typical VMware vSphere environment.
Because of the discount you get as a first buyer you SHOULD buy it with all needed Disks. This has also to do with the 4:1 Storage gurantee which only covered the disks which comes first with the unit.
The PowerStore main unit supports NVMe or SCM and no SATA or SAS SSDs. Earlier it was possible to expand the system with a DAE and additional SSDs. But since last year NVMe DAEs are available so there is no need to waste time with Non-NVMe drives.
Speaking about the drives.... they are also SED (Self-Encrypted-Drives). From a current order "P1 25 x 2,5 NVME SED SSD 1,92 TB | (400-BGGI)"
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October 31st, 2023 06:06
However, our company is getting a storage for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) needs. There will be no virtualization. Obviously a system where simulation data will be written continuously. Eda too will be read from a fast flash disk or ssd disk and written to a fast flash or ssd disk. 500t or powerVault seems logical.
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October 31st, 2023 06:52
If you already have your App running somewhere you can try liveoptics.com for measuring the EXISTING IOPS and latency to get a feeling and with these values you can use powersizer.dell.com.
Keep in mind that Powerstore is a NAS(Block and File) and ME5 is Block only. We size the PowerStore with typical DataReductionRatio of 2:1 and get 2.5:1 in real life and sometimes 3:1 or even 4.x:1 based on customer data. You have to find out if your EDA data can be compressed an dedupped or not.
As an additional note: In one specical case you can place SSDs into the powerstore main unit. When its combined with SCM. Because of the high price together with small drive size of SCM i never have a customer which consider SCM.
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Joerg