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Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays
What's New?
The PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i offer the following new features:
2X performance improvements over MD3000i
Up to 800MB/s RAID5 sequential reads
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Up to 30K RAID5 random disk reads
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Four models to choose from:
A cost effective, high capacity model (MD3200i): Single controller with 2GB of battery
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backed cache and four 1Gb Ethernet host ports housed in a 6Gb SAS 2U, 12 drive 3.5" HDD
enclosure. (directly connect up to 4 non –HA physical servers or up to 32 non-HA physical
servers with an Ethernet switch)
A highly available, high capacity model (MD3200i): Dual active/active controllers with a
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total of 4GB mirrored battery backed cache and a total of eight 1Gb Ethernet ports housed
in a 6Gb SAS 2U, 12 drive 3.5" HDD enclosure. (directly connect up to 8 non-HA physical
servers or 4 HA physical servers or up to 32 HA physical servers with Ethernet switches)
A cost effective, high performance model (MD3220i): Single controller with 2GB of battery
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backed cache and four 1Gb Ethernet host ports housed in a 6Gb SAS 2U, 24 drive 2.5" HDD
enclosure. (directly connect up to 4 non –HA physical servers or up to 32 non-HA physical
servers with an Ethernet switch)
A highly available, high performance model (MD3220i): Dual active/active controllers with
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a total of 4GB mirrored battery backed cache and a total of eight 1Gb Ethernet ports
housed in a 6Gb SAS 2U, 24 drive 2.5" HDD enclosure. (directly connect up to 8 non-HA
physical servers or 4 HA physical servers or up to 32 HA physical servers with Ethernet
switches)
Support for SAS, near-line SAS and Solid state disk drives
The ability to mix SAS, near-line SAS and SSD drives within the same enclosure supports a
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user's ability to blend drives to best suit their applications' storage needs across three tiers
of performance offerings
Expansion to 96 HDD
Additional expansion using MD1200 and/or MD1220 6Gb SAS enclosures for a maximum of 96
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hard disk drives.
Enclosures can be mixed behind base models to achieve the highest level of drive tiering
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Support for self-encrypting drives (SED) for securing data at rest
Provides security for data at rest via encryption at the HDD level
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Turbo performance premium feature key
Increases random IO operations up to 33% over base models.
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