Dell PowerMax 2000 vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerMax 2000 is an enterprise all-NVMe storage system built on modular PowerMax Bricks, delivering sub-millisecond response times for latency-critical transactional databases. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 is a quad-node all-flash enterprise storage array delivering over 1 million IOPS and sub-millisecond response times at massive scale.
| Dell PowerMax 2000 | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2018 | Aug 2015 |
| Form factor | system bay / standard rack | 4U rack all-flash array |
| Cpu platform | 1 or 2 PowerMax Bricks (2 to 4 directors), Intel Xeon Broadwell multi-core processors | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 2,048 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 96x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs / NVMe SCM drives across dual Brick enclosures | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 1.7 PB effective storage capacity | — |
| Network onboard | Front-end I/O modules supporting 32Gb/16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, and NVMe-oF | — |
| Power supply | Redundant hot-plug 2000W system power supplies with SPS battery backup units | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 2 or 4 active controllers |
| Form factor | — | 2U to 4U controller footprint |
| Asic generation | — | 3PAR Gen5 ASIC |
| Max drives | — | Up to 480 enterprise SAS solid-state drives |
| Max capacity | — | Over 7.3PB effective capacity |
| Host ports | — | 16Gb FC and 10GbE iSCSI |
| Performance | — | Over 1,000,000 IOPS at sub-millisecond latency |
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