Dell PowerVault ME484 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DE4000H
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 ThinkSystem DE4000H is a midrange hybrid storage array engineered for demanding transactional workloads, backup consolidations, and streaming media.
| Dell PowerVault ME484 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DE4000H | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | storage shelf | 2U rack |
| 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 | 2U12 LFF, 2U24 SFF, or high-density 4U60 enclosure |
| Raw capacity | Up to 1.68PB raw expansion capacity per 5U shelf (using 20TB drives) | Up to 3.0 PB raw with expansion units across 192 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 | Dual redundant 913W AC power supplies (2U) or 2320W (4U60) |
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