Dell PowerStore 500T — Full Technical Specifications

A storage sheet is read differently from a server one. The capacity rows here are effective figures — they assume the data reduction named lower down, and your own ratio depends entirely on what you store; incompressible data lands well under the headline. Read the protocol row next, since that is the hard compatibility question and the one that decides whether this appliance can front your existing hosts at all. The scale-out row tells you the growth path, which on this family is by adding appliances to a cluster rather than by adding shelves alone. The drive row names one media type, so there is no tiering decision to make here, only a capacity one.