HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 vs NetApp EF-Series EF570
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. 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. The NetApp EF570 was a 2U all-flash SAS array powered by SANtricity OS, delivering up to 1 million sustained IOPS and 21GBps throughput for analytics, video streaming, and big data clusters.
| HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 | NetApp EF-Series EF570 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Aug 2015 | Sep 2017 |
| Form factor | 4U rack all-flash array | 2U rack |
| 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 | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch 12Gb SAS SSDs, expandable to 120 drives with DE224C shelves |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs (800GB to 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 1.8PB raw per HA pair |
| Host connectivity | — | HIC slots supporting 100Gb NVMe/InfiniBand, 100Gb NVMe/RoCE, 32Gb FC, and 25GbE |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, FC, iSCSI, SRP |
| Clustering | — | High-availability active-active dual controller pair |
| Management | — | NetApp SANtricity OS |
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