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Technical specifications

Dell PowerMax 8500 — Full Technical Specifications

Official datasheet

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Full Specifications

TypeAll-flash end-to-end NVMe mission-critical storage (flagship)
Form Factor3U base enclosure, up to 8 node pairs per array
CPUIntel Xeon Scalable, 3.9 GHz, 72-80 cores per node
Cache1.8 TB - 45 TB
Max Capacity20 PBe effective
Max Drives384 NVMe SSDs
Max Node Pairs8
Host ProtocolsFC, FICON, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, iSCSI, SRDF, NFS, SMB
Drive TypesNVMe SSD (3.84-30.72 TB), SED, FIPS 140-3
Data Reduction5:1 DRR guarantee, HW compression, global inline dedup
Max Snapshots65M Secure Snapshots per array

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