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The Dell EqualLogic PS6500E is a virtualized iSCSI SAN array that holds 48 hot-pluggable 3.5-inch 7.2K RPM SATA drives in a 4U chassis. Among the PS6000 Series arrays it has the lowest cost per gigabyte, with up to 48TB of SATA storage from forty-eight 1TB drives. A SAN made up of PS6500E arrays can scale up to 768TB under one management interface.
Drive options run from 500GB and 1TB SATA II to 2TB SATA and 3TB NL-SAS, and 3TB drives bring one array to up to 144TB. The array has dual controllers with 2GB of non-volatile memory per controller, and each controller has four 1000BASE-T ports and one 100BASE-TX management port. RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 and RAID 50 are supported, and any standards-compliant iSCSI initiator can connect.
The PS6500E supports up to 1,024 volumes and 512 snapshots per volume, with up to 10,000 snapshots in total. A PS Series SAN can hold up to 16 members, and the PS6500E can be combined online with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays. Controllers, power supplies, cooling fans and disks are redundant and hot-swappable, and management runs over SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP and secure web access.
Three 440W DC power supplies run from 100-240 VAC at 47-63 Hz with a 0.95 minimum power factor, and heat dissipation is 3,400 BTU per hour at most. The chassis is 17.5 cm high (4 EIA units), 48.3 cm wide and 96 cm deep, and weighs 74.8 kg in the maximum configuration.
Related EqualLogic arrays include the PS6100 Dell EqualLogic PS6100 series iSCSI storage array, and more arrays, enclosures and controllers are collected in Dell storage systems.
| Model | Dell EqualLogic PS6500E |
| Form factor | 4U rack |
| Drive bays | 48 hot-pluggable 3.5-inch |
| Drive types | 7.2K RPM SATA II and NL-SAS |
| Capacity | 48TB with forty-eight 1TB drives; up to 144TB with the largest drives |
| Controllers | dual, 2GB non-volatile memory per controller |
| Network interfaces | four 1000BASE-T per controller, one 100BASE-TX management port per controller |
| Host protocol | iSCSI |
| RAID levels | 5, 6, 10, 50 |
| Snapshots | 512 per volume, up to 10,000 total |
| Power supplies | three 440W DC |
| Input | 100-240 VAC, 47-63 Hz, 0.95 minimum power factor |
| Dimensions (H x W x D) | 17.5 x 48.3 x 96 cm |
| Weight | 74.8 kg maximum configuration |