Dell Unity XT 680XT vs NetApp FAS Series FAS8700
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell Unity XT 680 is a high-performance hybrid flash storage array engineered for enterprise data centers consolidating massive transactional workloads, large-scale virtualization, and multi-tenant file services. The NetApp FAS8700 is a 4U midrange enterprise hybrid storage system optimized for high capacity, file consolidation, and secondary analytics workloads.
| Dell Unity XT 680XT | NetApp FAS Series FAS8700 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage processors (SPs), Intel Xeon Skylake 12-core (1.9 GHz) per SP | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch drives in base DPE; expands up to 1000 drives across SAS DAEs | Connects to DS224C, DS212C, and DS460C SAS shelves (up to 1440 drives) |
| Raw capacity | Up to 8.0 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 configuration | — | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs, 10K SAS HDDs, and 7.2K NL-SAS HDDs |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 144PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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