Rick Gouin

Day: May 5, 2020

Dell PowerStore Part 2!

· Rick Gouin

In the last segment, we went over PowerStore hardware. This time, we are going to dig into some more of the features, functionality, and capabilities of this newest midrange all flash storage array from Dell. The Basics: RAIDPowerStore supports RAID 5, and you can choose from one of two different stripe widths. 4+1 or 8+1. Thats it! Hope you weren’t thinking about using double parity on those 15TB flash drives. This old school RAID underpinning will have an impact on how you scale the system going forward, so its an important point. These RAID groups are managed as a pool […]

Dell PowerStore Released!

· Rick Gouin

Dell officially announces, releases, and launches their new midrange storage product today. You may have heard rumors about this platform under its code name midrange.next. Today, the product is released as PowerStore, so lets take a minute and talk details! I was happy to participate in the beta program several months ago, so I’ve already gotten up close and personal with the array. Lets start at the top, because there is a lot to unpack here. First, there are 2 distinct versions, the PowerStore X and the PowerStore T. Within each of these are separate models. I’ll get into what […]