Dell Unity XT 480XT vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8440 Storage System
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell Unity XT 480 is a mid-range hybrid flash enterprise storage array engineered to deliver high IOPS and throughput for mixed SAN and NAS workloads. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8440 is a converged flash and hybrid storage array with 2 or 4 controller nodes for enterprise mid-range deployments.
| Dell Unity XT 480XT | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8440 Storage System | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2019 | Aug 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack storage array |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage processors (SPs), Intel Xeon Skylake 8-core (1.8 GHz) per SP | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 192 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch drives in base DPE; expands up to 750 drives across SAS DAEs | Up to 960 SSD, SAS, or NL-SAS drives via expansion shelves |
| Raw capacity | Up to 4.0 PB raw capacity | — |
| Network onboard | 4-port 10GbE / 1GbE embedded; 2x I/O module slots per SP supporting 16Gb/32Gb FC or 25GbE optical | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1800W Platinum power supplies | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 2 or 4 controller nodes with Gen5 Thin Built-In ASIC |
| Cache | — | Up to 384GB total system cache |
| Host ports | — | Up to 24 16Gb Fibre Channel or 10GbE iSCSI ports |
| Data reduction | — | Adaptive sparing, thin deduplication, and thin clone technologies |
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