Dell Unity 500 vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform VSP G600
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 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G600 is an enterprise midrange hybrid SAN system supporting up to 576 drives and 256GB cache memory.
| Dell Unity 500 | Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform VSP G600 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Hitachi |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-support |
| Released | May 2016 | Apr 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U 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 | — | 4U rack |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active |
| Cache memory | — | 256GB |
| Max drives | — | 576 |
| Host interfaces | — | 16Gb/8Gb FC, 10Gb/1Gb iSCSI |
| Max raw capacity | — | 3400TB |
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