Dell PowerScale F600 vs Pure Storage FlashBlade //E
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerScale F600 is a high-performance 1U all-NVMe scale-out NAS node designed for demanding unstructured data workloads including genomic sequencing, AI training pipelines, autonomous vehicle simulation, and 4K/8K media rendering. The Pure Storage FlashBlade //E is a scale-out unstructured data repository designed to replace secondary disk and tape storage for petabyte-scale file and object archives.
| Dell PowerScale F600 | Pure Storage FlashBlade //E | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Pure Storage |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2020 | Mar 2023 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 5U modular chassis |
| Cpu platform | Dual Intel Xeon Gold 5218R (20 cores per CPU, 40 cores per node) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x NVMe SSDs (1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB or 15.36TB) per 1U node | — |
| Raw capacity | 46TB to 368TB raw capacity per node (up to 92 PB in a 252-node cluster) | — |
| Network onboard | Dual 100GbE / 25GbE front-end ports; dual 100GbE back-end clustering ports | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1400W Platinum power supplies | — |
| Chassis form factor | — | 5U modular chassis with compute blades and DirectFlash storage bays |
| Operating system | — | Pure Storage Purity//FB |
| Storage media | — | DirectFlash QLC Modules (up to 75TB per module) |
| Capacity scale | — | Scales from 4PB to tens of petabytes of raw unstructured storage |
| Networking | — | 100GbE Ethernet network fabric |
| Protocols | — | NFS, SMB, S3 Object |
| Data efficiency | — | Built-in compression and thin provisioning |
| Management | — | Pure1 SaaS platform |
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