Dell PowerScale H7000 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerScale H7000 is a dense 4U 4-node hybrid scale-out NAS enclosure engineered to balance multi-petabyte capacity with SSD-accelerated performance. The ThinkSystem DM5000H is a 2U midrange unified hybrid storage system running Lenovo ONTAP, based on OEM NetApp FAS2750 hardware.
| Dell PowerScale H7000 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U 4-node chassis | 2U rack |
| Cpu platform | 4x Intel Xeon Silver 4210R (10 cores per node, 40 cores per 4U chassis) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 768 | — |
| Drive bays | 80x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs (up to 1.6PB raw per chassis) + 4x to 8x cache SSDs | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays in 2U base chassis |
| Raw capacity | 320TB to 1.6PB raw capacity per 4U chassis | Up to 2.16 PB raw capacity across up to 144 drives |
| Network onboard | Front-end: Dual 25GbE / 100GbE per node; Back-end: Dual 25GbE / 100GbE per node | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1450W power supplies | Dual redundant 913W AC hot-swap power supplies |
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