Dell PowerEdge R760 vs NetApp EF-Series EF600
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R760 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen (Sapphire Rapids) and 5th Gen (Emerald Rapids) and 32 memory slots supporting up to 8192GB DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM. The NetApp EF600 is an enterprise 2U all-NVMe storage array powered by the SANtricity operating system.
| Dell PowerEdge R760 | NetApp EF-Series EF600 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Feb 2023 | Sep 2019 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen (Sapphire Rapids) and 5th Gen (Emerald Rapids) | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | — |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 8,192 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe, 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA, or 16x E3.S NVMe | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 2U chassis |
| Pcie slots | Up to 8 PCIe Gen5 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 2x 350W double-wide or 6x 75W single-wide GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot; dedicated 1GbE iDRAC9 Direct port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 700W, 800W, 1100W, 1400W, 1800W, 2400W or 2800W Titanium/Platinum | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual AMD EPYC processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 128GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 367TB raw in 2U enclosure |
| Host connectivity | — | Host Interface Cards (HICs) supporting 100Gb/200Gb InfiniBand, 100Gb/200Gb NVMe/RoCE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, SRP |
| Clustering | — | High-availability active-active dual controller pair |
| Management | — | NetApp SANtricity OS, SANtricity System Manager |
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