Dell Isilon H500 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell EMC Isilon H500 is a versatile mid-tier hybrid scale-out NAS system delivering high throughput and solid enterprise capacity for rich media, healthcare PACS, and high-concurrency file environments. The ThinkSystem DM5000H is a 2U midrange unified hybrid storage system running Lenovo ONTAP, based on OEM NetApp FAS2750 hardware.
| Dell Isilon H500 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2017 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U 4-node chassis | 2U rack |
| Cpu platform | 4x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 (10 cores per node, 40 cores per chassis) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 512 | — |
| Drive bays | 60x 3.5-inch SATA hard drives (up to 12TB drives) + 4x to 8x cache SSDs | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays in 2U base chassis |
| Raw capacity | 120TB to 720TB raw capacity per 4U chassis | Up to 2.16 PB raw capacity across up to 144 drives |
| Network onboard | Front-end: Dual 40GbE QSFP+ or Dual 10GbE SFP+ per node; Back-end: Dual 40GbE QSFP+ | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1450W power supplies | Dual redundant 913W AC hot-swap power supplies |
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