Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S5 vs HPE Alletra 6000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S5 is an enterprise modular storage system supporting up to 528 drive bays and 256GB cache memory. The HPE Alletra 6000 is an all-NVMe enterprise storage array derived from HPE's Nimble Storage DNA and CASL/NimbleOS architecture.
| Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S5 | HPE Alletra 6000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Fujitsu | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Dec 2019 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | 3U rack | 4U rack |
| 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 | 8400TB | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Dual Active/Standby Controllers running Nimble OS architecture on AMD EPYC processors |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4 ECC Registered RDIMM with NVDIMM cache protection |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 512 |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 24 NVMe SSDs in a 4U dual-controller array enclosure; optional NVMe expansion shelves |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 6 host interface card slots per controller pair |
| Gpu support | — | — |
| Network onboard | — | Dual 10GbE management/data ports plus optional 10GbE/25GbE iSCSI or 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel host cards |
| Raw capacity | — | Scales from 23TB up to over 4PB effective capacity with inline deduplication and compression |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant 1600W hot-plug Platinum power supplies |
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