Dell PowerVault ME424 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200
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 Lenovo Storage DS4200 was an entry-to-midrange hybrid SAN storage array built on Dot Hill / Seagate AssuredSAN OEM architecture.
| Dell PowerVault ME424 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | May 2017 |
| 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 | 12x 3.5-inch LFF or 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays in 2U base chassis |
| Raw capacity | Up to 184TB raw expansion capacity (using 7.68TB enterprise SAS SSDs) | Up to 960 TB raw capacity across up to 240 drives with expansion units |
| 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 595W AC hot-swap power supplies |
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