HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen9 Server vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen9 (Apollo 4200 Gen9) is a 2U dense storage server engineered for object storage, big data Hadoop analytics, and content repositories. The ThinkSystem SR650 was Lenovo's core two-socket 2U rack server for 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen9 Server | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jun 2015 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack dense storage | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors | — |
| Memory | 16 DDR4 DIMM slots up to 1TB DDR4-2400 Registered SmartMemory | — |
| Storage capacity | Up to 28 LFF drives (224TB) or 50 SFF drives (100TB) in 2U | — |
| Raid controllers | HPE Flexible Smart Array P840/4GB or H240 HBA | — |
| Power | Dual hot-plug 800W or 1400W Flex Slot power supplies | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 14x 3.5-inch LFF hot-swap bays; up to 8 AnyBay NVMe bays |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM and internal storage slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2 double-wide 300W GPUs or 4 single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM adapter slot (1GbE or 10GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant 550W / 750W / 1100W / 1600W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
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