HPE MSA 2060 vs NetApp FAS Series FAS2820
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 FAS2820 is a modern 2U hybrid storage system engineered for small to midsized enterprises, remote offices, and secondary backup targets.
| HPE MSA 2060 | NetApp FAS Series FAS2820 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Sep 2020 | Feb 2023 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U 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 24x internal 2.5-inch 12Gb SAS drives, expandable to 144 drives with DS224C/DS212C 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 controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon multi-core processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB 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 26PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Onboard 10GBase-T and UTA2 ports for 16Gb/32Gb FC or 10GbE/25GbE |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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