Contributing to the entry-level segment, the Dell EMC ME-series is geared towards customers looking for an affordable yet fully featured storage device that is suitable for applications requiring large storage capacities such as video surveillance, compute high performance or edit video. ME4 delivers 4 times the I / O performance compared to previous generation MD3.
Sold products come with licenses for features such as automatic data classification, read-cache, and synchronization.
Models include the ME4012, ME4024 and ME4084 along with the extended disc trays.
Table of technical features of the product
ME4 series ME4012 ME4024 ME4084
Chassis Overview
Rack size 2U 2U 5U
Format All-in-one unit (dual controllers, internal drive bays, network I / O).
Additional capacity via optional expansion enclosures.
Internal storage capacity 12 x 3.5 ”drive bays 24 x 2.5 ″ drive bays 84 x 2.5 ″ drive bays
Controllers Dual hot-swappable per chassis (active / active)
Intel® 2-core Processors, 2.2GHz
System memory 8GB per controller
Expansion Capacity
Max raw capacity 3.1 PB 3 PB 4 PB
Maximum drive count 264 276 336
Supported expansion enclosures ME412: 12 x 3.5 ”drive bays (12Gb SAS).
ME424: 24 x 2.5 ”drive bays (12Gb SAS).
ME484: 84 x 3.5 ”drive bays (12Gb SAS). Also available as JBOD.
Storage media support SAS and NL-SAS drives; different drive types, transfer rates, rotational speeds can be mixed in the same system:
• NLSAS (7.2K 3.5 ”): 4TB, 8TB, 10TB, 12TB, 12TB SED
• NLSAS (7.2K 2.5 ”): 2TB, 2TB SED
• SAS (10K 2.5 ”): 1.2TB, 1.8TB, 2.4TB, 2.4TB SED
• SAS (15K 2.5 ”): 900GB, 900GB SED
• SSD: 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB, 1.92TB SED
• SDD and HDD: FIPS-certified SEDs
Network and Expansion I / O
Host interface FC, iSCSI, SAS (supports simultaneous multiprotocol FC / iSCSI)
Max 16Gb FC ports 8 per array (support auto-negotiate to 8Gb)
Max 10Gb iSCSI ports 8 SFP + or BaseT ports per array (BaseT only support auto negotiate to 1Gb)
Max 12Gb SAS ports 8 12Gb SAS ports
Max multi-protocol ports 4 ports 16Gb FC SFP +
4 ports 10Gb iSCSI SFP +
Management ports 2 per array (1Gb BASE-T)
Disk expansion protocol 12Gb SAS
Disk interface
expansion ports 2 12Gb SAS (wide-Port) per array (1 port per controller).
Up to 9 2U expansion enclosures per 2U base array.
Up to 3 5U expansion enclosures per 2U base array.
Up to 3 5U expansion enclosures per 5U base array
Data Optimization
Auto-tiering Up to 3 primary (media-based) tiers (2 level tiering supported)
RAID support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or Adapt; any combination of RAID levels can exist in single array
Adapt Distributed erasure coding that reduces rebuild times when drive failures occur
Thin provisioning Active by default on all volumes, operates at full performance across all features
Snapshot 1024 maximum snapshots per array
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