Dell PowerVault MD3860F vs HPE MSA 2050
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerVault MD3860F combines high-density 4U drawer architecture with dual 16Gb Fibre Channel controllers to deliver high-capacity SAN storage for enterprise virtualization, medical imaging, and backup targets. The HPE MSA 2050 is a 2U hybrid and all-flash SAN array delivering over 200,000 IOPS for small-to-midsize business application consolidation.
| Dell PowerVault MD3860F | HPE MSA 2050 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 2U rack enterprise SAN |
| Controller type | Dual active-active 16Gb Fibre Channel RAID controllers, 4GB or 8GB cache per controller | — |
| Drive bays | 60x 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SAS/NL-SAS/SSD drives across two sliding drawers in 4U | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 600TB raw storage in base enclosure; expands up to 180 drives | — |
| Host interface | 4x 16Gb SFP+ Fibre Channel host ports per controller (8 ports total) | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1755W power supply modules | — |
| Form factor | — | 2U rack mount (12 LFF or 24 SFF) |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active converged controllers with 16GB total system cache |
| Host ports | — | 4 ports per controller (16Gb/8Gb FC or 10GbE/1GbE iSCSI SFP+) |
| Performance | — | Up to 200,000 IOPS |
| Max drives | — | Up to 192 SFF or 96 LFF drives with seven disk enclosures |
| Data protection | — | 512 snapshots included standard with asynchronous remote replication |
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