Dell PowerStore 3000T vs NetApp AFF A400
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 NetApp AFF A400 is an enterprise midrange all-flash array featuring hardware-accelerated data reduction and native end-to-end NVMe protocol support.
| Dell PowerStore 3000T | NetApp AFF A400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| 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 | Connects to NS224 NVMe drive shelves and DS224C SAS drive 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 configuration | — | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors with dedicated crypto/compression offload engines |
| Memory | — | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB to 15.3TB) and 12Gb SAS SSDs (960GB to 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 140PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, 32Gb FC, and 16Gb FC |
| 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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