Dell PowerVault MD3060e vs Lenovo ThinkSystem D3284 High Density Drive Enclosure
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerVault MD3060e is a 4U dense SAS enclosure with five drawers and room for 60 drives, managed by two enclosure management modules. The Lenovo ThinkSystem D3284 is an ultra-dense 5U storage enclosure accommodating up to 84 3.5-inch SAS hard drives in dual pull-out drawers.
| Dell PowerVault MD3060e | Lenovo ThinkSystem D3284 High Density Drive Enclosure | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | unknown | current |
| Released | — | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 5U rack |
| Drive bays | 60 drives in five drawers, up to 12 per drawer, in 4U | 84x 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS drive bays arranged in two 42-drive slide-out drawers |
| Management modules | Two enclosure management modules (EMMs) | — |
| Host interface | 12Gb SAS when used as a storage enclosure with supported SAS HBAs | — |
| Power supply | Two power supplies and two fan modules | Dual redundant hot-swap 2214W Platinum AC power supplies |
| Max enclosures per configuration | 4 | — |
| Max sas cable length m | 4 | — |
| Max ssd per enclosure | 25 | — |
| Enclosure type | — | 5U 84-drive High Density Large Form Factor (LFF 3.5-inch) enclosure |
| Interface modules | — | Dual redundant 12Gb SAS Environmental Services Modules (ESMs) |
| Capacity | — | Over 1.5PB of raw storage capacity using 18TB or 20TB enterprise HDDs |
| Redundancy | — | Dual SAS data paths, N+1 hot-swap cooling modules, and redundant power supplies |
| Management | — | In-band SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) |
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