Dell PowerEdge R540 vs Lenovo Lenovo Storage DS2200
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R540 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) and 16 memory slots supporting up to 512GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM. The Lenovo Storage DS2200 is an entry-level 2U SAN storage array engineered for price-sensitive small and medium businesses.
| Dell PowerEdge R540 | Lenovo Lenovo Storage DS2200 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2017 | May 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake), up to 20 cores, 125W TDP | — |
| Memory slots | 16 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 512 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (plus optional 2x rear 3.5-inch drives) | 12x 3.5-inch LFF or 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays; expandable up to 96 drives |
| Pcie slots | Up to 5 PCIe Gen3 slots | — |
| Gpu support | None supported | — |
| Network onboard | 2x 1GbE LOM ports; optional LOM Mezzanine slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W or 1100W | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active controller canisters with 8GB total cache (4GB per controller) |
| Host interfaces | — | 4x 16Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller canister |
| Max performance | — | Up to 100,000 IOPS and up to 3.5 GB/s sequential throughput |
| Features | — | Rapid tiered caching, Rapid Rebuild, thin provisioning, snapshot copies (up to 128) |
| Management | — | Lenovo Storage Management Console (SMC) web interface |
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