Dell PowerStore 1000T vs NetApp AFF A250
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 NetApp AFF A250 is an entry enterprise all-NVMe storage array packing 24 hot-swap NVMe drive bays into a 2U dual-controller enclosure.
| Dell PowerStore 1000T | NetApp AFF A250 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U 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 | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 2U chassis, expandable with 1x NS224 shelf |
| 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 | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 128GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (960GB, 1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 57PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Onboard 25GbE/10GbE and PCIe expansion for 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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