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Dell PowerScale storage is a scale-out NAS platform designed to meet the data storage challenges of the unstructured data age. Unlike traditional scale-up storage, PowerScale storage can scale to multiple petabytes of data in a single volume. Fully distributed single file system eliminates the need for administrators to set up and manage multiple storage silos, each with their own sets of RAID groups, aggregates, volumes, mount points, and hot spots to manage. These issues, common with legacy, scale-up storage, can make storage very difficult and expensive to manage, but these problems disappear with PowerScale storage.
PowerScale storage offers a variety of node types that are designed for each part of a typical EDA workloads. At the highest end of performance, the F910 model offers the highest performance thanks to its all-flash architecture. The PowerScale family also features hybrid node types with a mix of flash and spinning disks. Though these are common with other workloads, the vast majority of EDA workloads demand the highest performance, for which all-flash storage nodes are required. Finally, the A Series nodes offer the lowest cost per terabyte. The A300 model is designed for efficient back up and active archiving, while the A3000 model is designed for large, colder archives for long-term preservation.