Dell Unity 550F vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell EMC Unity 550F is an enterprise all-flash storage array powered by dual 14-core Intel Xeon Broadwell processors and 256GB of system cache. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 is a quad-node all-flash enterprise storage array delivering over 1 million IOPS and sub-millisecond response times at massive scale.
| Dell Unity 550F | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2017 | Aug 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack all-flash array |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active Storage Processors, 2x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 (14 cores, 2.0 GHz per SP) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 256 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch SAS SSDs in base DPE; expands up to 1000 flash drives across DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 8.0 PB effective all-flash capacity | — |
| Network onboard | 4-port 10GBASE-T 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 | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 2 or 4 active controllers |
| Form factor | — | 2U to 4U controller footprint |
| Asic generation | — | 3PAR Gen5 ASIC |
| Max drives | — | Up to 480 enterprise SAS solid-state drives |
| Max capacity | — | Over 7.3PB effective capacity |
| Host ports | — | 16Gb FC and 10GbE iSCSI |
| Performance | — | Over 1,000,000 IOPS at sub-millisecond latency |
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