Utilizing Compellent's Dynamic Block Architecture, Storage Center intelligently optimizes data movement and access at the block level. Dynamic Block Architecture records and tracks specific information about every block of data that provides the system intelligence on how that block is being used. All of this metadata or "data about the data" enables Storage Center to take a more sophisticated and intelligent approach to storing, recovering and managing your data.

Dynamic Block Architecture provides extensive information about every block of data, including:

• Time written
• Time accessed
• Frequency of access
• Associated volume
• Type of disk drive used
• Type of data stored
• RAID level

Storage Center's powerful software applications utilize this block-level intelligence to manage your data differently.