Dell PowerStore 3000T vs HPE Primera A650 All-Flash Storage System
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerStore 3000T is a high-performance enterprise all-flash storage array engineered for core corporate virtualization, transactional database clustering (Oracle, SQL Server), and multi-protocol enterprise NAS. The HPE Primera A650 is a 4-node all-flash NVMe enterprise storage platform engineered for core data center workloads and consolidated transactional databases.
| Dell PowerStore 3000T | HPE Primera A650 All-Flash Storage System | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2020 | Jun 2019 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack storage array |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage nodes, Intel Xeon Gold 6240 (24 cores per node, 48 cores per appliance) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 768 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in base DPE; expands up to 96 drives across DAEs | Up to 576 SFF solid state drives via expansion shelves |
| Raw capacity | Up to 3.5 PB effective capacity per appliance | — |
| Network onboard | 4-port 25GbE Mezzanine; 2x I/O module slots per node supporting 32Gb FC, 25GbE, or NVMe/TCP | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1800W Platinum power supplies | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 4 active-active controller nodes with dedicated hardware ASICs |
| Cache | — | 512GB total system memory cache |
| Host ports | — | Up to 48 Fibre Channel or Ethernet host ports |
| Data services | — | Hardware-accelerated inline deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning |
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