Dell Compellent SC4020 vs NetApp EF-Series EF560
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell Storage SC4020, from the Compellent line, is a 2U array with two storage controllers and up to 24 internal 2.5-inch SAS drives. The NetApp EF560 was a 2U high-performance all-flash array delivering up to 650,000 IOPS and sub-800 microsecond response times for enterprise database and latency-sensitive block workloads.
| Dell Compellent SC4020 | NetApp EF-Series EF560 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NetApp |
| Status | unknown | end-of-support |
| Released | — | Jan 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Controller configuration | Two hot-swappable storage controllers | Dual active-active controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Drive bays | 7 to 24 internal 2.5-inch hot-swappable 6Gbps SAS drives | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch 12Gb SAS SSDs, expandable to 120 drives with DE224C/DE5600 shelves |
| Expansion | Up to 14 SC200 or 7 SC220 expansion enclosures, up to 192 drives in one redundant SAS chain; up to two SC280 enclosures per the owner manual | — |
| Host connectivity | Per controller: two 16Gb Fibre Channel, four 8Gb Fibre Channel, two 10Gb iSCSI or four 12Gb SAS ports | HIC slots supporting 56Gb InfiniBand, 16Gb FC, 10GbE, and 12Gb SAS |
| Management | Dell Storage Manager Client, Storage Center OS | NetApp SANtricity OS |
| Power supply | Two redundant 580W power supply and cooling fan modules | — |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 24GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs (400GB to 3.8TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 384TB raw per HA pair |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand SRP |
| Clustering | — | High-availability active-active dual controller pair |
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