Dell PowerVault MD1220 Direct Attached Storage

Impressive Performance

The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1220 storage array can deliver the speed, performance and reliability to satisfy data-hungry, performance-intensive, single-server applications that store active and frequently changing information.

• 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) — With a 35 percent increase in I/O processors (IOPs) capability and twice the throughput of the previous generation of arrays, PowerVault MD1220 can satisfy even the most performance-intensive applications such as Web, database and email hosting.
• Solid-state drives (SSDs) — Pair the increased IOPs and throughput of 6-Gb/s SAS with support for SSDs, which have thrice the IOPs performance over 15,000 SAS drives*, and you have an ideal solution for applications that rely on random-block access.
• Automatic I/O load balancing — Further optimizing the performance of PowerVault MD1220, the PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) H800 HostRAID adapter has automatic I/O (input/output) load balancing to detect when a single path starts to get saturated and balances the I/O traffic across both paths.

_{*Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in comparing Dell PERC H800 with PowerVault MD1220 to PERC 6/E with PowerVault MD1120.}