Dell PowerVault MD3000i Expert Reviews

It's been a long time coming, but the past year has seen iSCSI move into the network storage mainstream. Dell has now joined the party, and in this UK exclusive we bring you the first hands-on review of the company's new PowerVault MD3000i, which aims ...

Limited expansion capabilities, but Dell delivers top iSCSI performance at a price that's appealing to SMBs.

The array keeps cumulative statistics of the traffic on each iSCSI port which helps spotting a persistent load unbalance ; 1GB of mirrored, battery protected cache

Doesn't have load-monitoring applets

The MD3000i is an iSCSI array that promises more deployment flexibility and easier sharing across multiple servers than the MD3000, its direct-attached sibling. Unfortunately, SATA drives are not yet available in the MD3000i, severely limiting the ...