Dell PowerStore 1000T vs Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S5
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge 1000T is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Dual active-active storage nodes, Intel Xeon Gold 5218 (16 cores per node, 32 cores per appliance) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 384GB DDR4 ECC Registered RDIMM. The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S5 is an enterprise modular storage system supporting up to 528 drive bays and 256GB cache memory.
| Dell PowerStore 1000T | Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Fujitsu |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2020 | Dec 2019 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 3U rack |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage nodes, Intel Xeon Gold 5218 (16 cores per node, 32 cores per appliance) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs / NVMe SCM drives in base DPE; expands up to 96 NVMe drives across DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 2.8 PB effective capacity per appliance | — |
| Network onboard | 4-port 25GbE Mezzanine; 2x I/O module slots per node supporting 32Gb FC, 25GbE iSCSI, or NVMe/TCP | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1800W Platinum power supplies | — |
| Form factor | — | 3U controller enclosure |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active |
| Cache memory | — | 256GB |
| Max drives | — | 528 |
| Host interfaces | — | 32Gb/16Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI |
| Max raw capacity | — | 8400TB |
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