Dell PowerVault ME424 vs HPE MSA 2060
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerVault ME424 is a 2U 24-drive 2.5-inch expansion shelf designed to deliver dense performance and SSD flash capacity to PowerVault ME4 series arrays. The HPE MSA 2060 is a flash-ready hybrid storage array engineered to provide affordable application acceleration for small and medium businesses (SMB) and branch office deployments.
| Dell PowerVault ME424 | HPE MSA 2060 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Sep 2020 |
| Form factor | storage shelf | 2U rack |
| Controller type | Dual hot-pluggable 12Gb SAS Environmental Service Modules (ESMs) | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SSD drive bays in a 2U chassis | 2U24 SFF or 2U12 LFF base chassis; supports up to 9 drive expansion enclosures (up to 240 SFF or 120 LFF drives) |
| Raw capacity | Up to 184TB raw expansion capacity (using 7.68TB enterprise SAS SSDs) | Up to 921TB SFF or 2.16PB LFF raw capacity with expansion enclosures |
| Interconnect | Dual 12Gb/s mini-SAS HD (SFF-8644) ports per ESM for high-bandwidth array loopback | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 580W Platinum power supply modules | Dual redundant 580W hot-plug AC power supplies |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Dual Active/Active ASIC-accelerated Storage Controllers |
| Memory slots | — | — |
| Memory type | — | 12GB System Cache per Controller (24GB total per array) |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 24 |
| Pcie slots | — | — |
| Gpu support | — | — |
| Network onboard | — | 4 host ports per controller (8 ports total): 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, or 12Gb SAS |
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