Dell PowerStore 9000T vs NetApp AFF A800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerStore 9000T is the top-tier all-flash storage array in the initial PowerStore family, engineered for mission-critical core banking, large-scale ERP environments, and massive electronic trading systems. The NetApp AFF A800 was NetApp's first end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash storage system, pairing internal NVMe SSDs with NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) front-end connectivity.
| Dell PowerStore 9000T | NetApp AFF A800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2020 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage nodes, Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 (48 cores per node, 96 cores per appliance) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 2,560 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in base DPE; expands up to 96 drives across DAEs | Up to 48x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 4U chassis, plus NS224 shelves |
| Raw capacity | Up to 5.0 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 | — | Dual Intel Xeon Skylake processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 316PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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