Disk Drives

Dell Compellent Disk Drives

Dell Compellent disk drives feature the latest industry standards for maximum efficiency and performance, while Thin Provisioning ensures physical capacity is only consumed on write. Organizations can combine SSD, Fibre Channel and SAS drives in the same system. And administrators can choose the drive types, capacities, form factors, transfer rates and rotational speeds that make sense for their business or application needs. Now available with a 6 Gb transfer rate, Dell Compellent SAS drives with the same 2.5" or 3.5" form factor (but different speeds and capacities) can even share the same storage enclosure. SAS 2.0 technology delivers twice the performance yet uses nearly half the power of SAS 1.0. Plus, 2.5" SAS drives are two-thirds smaller than conventional 3.5" drives, resulting in a significant performance boost with a smaller footprint. With Dell Compellent, you can scale up and out on demand, adding storage capacity on the fly as business needs change. And migrating data to new disk drives can be performed without disruption or downtime using Live Volume software.