Dell Unity 500 vs Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S4
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell EMC Unity 500 is a dual-controller 2U hybrid unified storage platform providing simultaneous block (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) and file (NFS, SMB) protocol presentation. The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S4 is an enterprise-class hybrid storage system supporting up to 528 drive bays and 256GB cache memory.
| Dell Unity 500 | Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Fujitsu |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2016 | Oct 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 3U rack |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active Storage Processors, 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 (8 cores, 2.4 GHz per SP) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 128 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch drives in base DPE; expands up to 500 drives across SAS DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 2.1 PB raw hybrid capacity | — |
| Network onboard | 4-port 10GBASE-T / 1GbE embedded; 2x I/O module slots per SP supporting 16Gb FC or 10GbE optical | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug power supplies with integrated battery backup modules | — |
| Form factor | — | 3U controller enclosure |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active |
| Cache memory | — | 256GB |
| Max drives | — | 528 |
| Host interfaces | — | 32Gb/16Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI |
| Max raw capacity | — | 7900TB |
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