HPE MSA 2060 vs NetApp E-Series E5700
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE MSA 2060 is a flash-ready hybrid storage array engineered to provide affordable application acceleration for small and medium businesses (SMB) and branch office deployments. The NetApp E5700 is an enterprise hybrid SANtricity storage system delivering high-throughput block data storage for big data analytics, backup and recovery, and high-performance technical computing.
| HPE MSA 2060 | NetApp E-Series E5700 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Sep 2020 | Sep 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U/4U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Dual Active/Active ASIC-accelerated Storage Controllers | — |
| Memory slots | — | — |
| Memory type | 12GB System Cache per Controller (24GB total per array) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 24 | — |
| Drive bays | 2U24 SFF or 2U12 LFF base chassis; supports up to 9 drive expansion enclosures (up to 240 SFF or 120 LFF drives) | Up to 480 drives using DE224C, DE212C, and DE460C expansion shelves |
| Pcie slots | — | — |
| Gpu support | — | — |
| Network onboard | 4 host ports per controller (8 ports total): 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, or 12Gb SAS | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 921TB SFF or 2.16PB LFF raw capacity with expansion enclosures | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant 580W hot-plug AC power supplies | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U (E5724) or 4U (E5760) enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon multi-core processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs, 10K SAS HDDs, and 7.2K NL-SAS HDDs |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 7.6PB raw per HA pair |
| Host connectivity | — | HIC slots supporting 100Gb InfiniBand/RoCE, 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 12Gb SAS |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand SRP |
| Clustering | — | Dual active-active controller HA pair |
| Management | — | NetApp SANtricity OS |
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