Dell PowerScale H700 vs HPE Alletra 9000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerScale H700 is a 4U hybrid performance scale-out NAS enclosure that blends high-capacity SAS hard drives with integrated NVMe SSD read/write cache. The HPE Alletra 9000 is an enterprise Tier-0 mission critical all-NVMe storage array inheriting the architectural DNA and dedicated ASIC technology of HPE Primera.
| Dell PowerScale H700 | HPE Alletra 9000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2021 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | 4U | 4U rack mission-critical array |
| Cpu platform | Single Intel Xeon Gold 5218R per node (4 nodes in a 4U chassis) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 768 | — |
| Drive bays | 60x 3.5-inch SAS hard drives plus 4x or 8x NVMe SSD cache drives per 4U chassis | — |
| Raw capacity | 120TB to 1200TB raw capacity per 4U chassis (up to 75 PB in a cluster) | — |
| Network onboard | Dual 100GbE / 25GbE front-end ports; dual 100GbE back-end clustering ports per node | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1450W power supplies in 4U chassis | — |
| Form factor | — | 4U base chassis housing 2 or 4 controller nodes |
| Architecture | — | Active-active multi-node symmetric controller architecture |
| Drive type | — | All-NVMe enterprise SSDs |
| Maximum iops | — | Exceeding 2,000,000 IOPS |
| Host ports | — | 32Gb Fibre Channel and 100GbE / 25GbE NVMe-oF RoCEv2 |
| Availability guarantee | — | 100% data availability guarantee standard |
| Cloud management | — | HPE GreenLake Data Services Cloud Console |
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