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Dell PowerProtect DD Data Domain DD9500 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The EMC Data Domain DD9500 was the flagship enterprise deduplication director of its era, delivering industry-leading 58.7 TB/hr ingest throughput and scaling up to 2.1PB of physical storage capacity. The ThinkSystem DM5000H is a 2U midrange unified hybrid storage system running Lenovo ONTAP, based on OEM NetApp FAS2750 hardware.

Dell PowerProtect DD Data Domain DD9500Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H
BrandDellLenovo
Statusend-of-supportend-of-sale
ReleasedMay 2015Sep 2018
Form factor2U controller + shelves2U rack
Cpu platformDual Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 (14 cores, 2.6 GHz per processor, 28 cores total)—
Memory max (GB)512—
Raw capacityUp to 2.1PB raw usable capacity across external shelvesUp to 2.16 PB raw capacity across up to 144 drives
Ingest throughputUp to 58.7 TB/hr with DD Boost—
Network onboardModular front-end I/O supporting 10GbE optical, 10GBASE-T, and 16Gb Fibre Channel—
Power supplyDual redundant hot-plug 1100W AC power suppliesDual redundant 913W AC hot-swap power supplies
Drive bays—24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays in 2U base chassis

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