Dell PowerVault ME484 vs HPE MSA 2062
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerVault ME484 is a 5U ultra-dense 84-drive expansion enclosure engineered for massive cold storage, CCTV surveillance archiving, and petabyte-scale file consolidation. The HPE MSA 2062 is a pre-configured Gen6 hybrid storage array bundle built on the MSA 2060 hardware platform.
| Dell PowerVault ME484 | HPE MSA 2062 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Sep 2020 |
| Form factor | storage shelf | 2U rack hybrid SAN |
| Controller type | Dual hot-pluggable 12Gb SAS Environmental Service Modules (ESMs) | — |
| Drive bays | 84x 3.5-inch/2.5-inch drive bays across two sliding drawers in a 5U chassis | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 1.68PB raw expansion capacity per 5U shelf (using 20TB drives) | — |
| Interconnect | Dual 12Gb/s mini-SAS HD (SFF-8644) ports per ESM module | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 2200W high-efficiency power supplies with 5 cooling fan modules | — |
| Form factor | — | 2U rack-mount chassis (24 SFF or 12 LFF) |
| Controllers | — | Dual Gen6 active-active controllers (24GB total system cache) |
| Bundled storage | — | 2x 1.92TB enterprise SAS SSDs included |
| Included software | — | Advanced Data Services (ADS) suite included standard |
| Performance | — | Over 325,000 IOPS and up to 13.1 GB/s sequential throughput |
| Host ports | — | 4 ports per controller (16Gb FC, 10GbE/25GbE iSCSI, or 12G SAS) |
| Data protection | — | MSA-DP+ distributed RAID and 512 virtual volume snapshots |
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