Dell PowerScale A3000 vs HPE StoreOnce 5200
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerScale A3000 is an enterprise 4U 4-node dense active archive system architected for long-term data retention, regulatory file repositories, and cost-effective disaster recovery tiers. The HPE StoreOnce 5200 is an enterprise 2U deduplication backup system built on ProLiant Gen10 server architecture.
| Dell PowerScale A3000 | HPE StoreOnce 5200 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Nov 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U 4-node chassis | 2U rack enterprise backup |
| Cpu platform | 4x Intel Xeon Silver processors (8 cores per node, 32 cores per 4U chassis) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 384 | — |
| Drive bays | 80x 3.5-inch SATA hard drives (up to 1.6PB raw per chassis) with optional cache SSDs | — |
| Raw capacity | 960TB to 1.6PB raw capacity per 4U chassis | 48TB base raw, expandable to 288TB raw |
| Network onboard | Front-end: Dual 25GbE / 10GbE per node; Back-end: Dual 25GbE per node | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1450W power supplies | — |
| Form factor | — | 2U base chassis with external disk expansion shelves |
| Server chassis | — | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 |
| Usable capacity | — | 36TB to 216TB usable local storage |
| Cloud tiering | — | Up to 648TB cloud object storage with Cloud Bank |
| Performance | — | Up to 33 TB/hr ingest rate with StoreOnce Catalyst |
| Connectivity | — | 10GbE / 25GbE optical interfaces and 32Gb/16Gb Fibre Channel |
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