Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H vs NetApp E-Series E5760
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H is a midrange hybrid storage array engineered to handle high-bandwidth enterprise streaming, large database consolidation, and high-performance computing storage tiers. The NetApp E5760 is an ultra-dense 4U 60-drive hybrid storage array engineered for large-scale backup targets, video surveillance archiving, and high-bandwidth sequential data recording.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H | NetApp E-Series E5760 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Sep 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active controller canisters with 64GB or 128GB total system cache | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 60x 3.5-inch 4U chassis; expandable up to 480 drives via D1224/D3284 enclosures | 60x internal top-loading 3.5-inch/2.5-inch drive drawers, expandable to 480 drives |
| Host interfaces | Up to 8x 32Gb FC, 25Gb iSCSI, 100Gb NVMe-oF, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller | — |
| Max performance | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS and up to 21 GB/s sequential read bandwidth | — |
| Features | Dynamic Disk Pools, snapshot copies, volume copy, synchronous and asynchronous replication | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies | — |
| Management | SANtricity System Manager (HTML5 web GUI) | NetApp SANtricity OS |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 4U 60-drive enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with cache protection |
| Supported drives | — | 7.2K NL-SAS HDDs, 10K SAS HDDs, and 12Gb SAS SSDs |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 7.6PB raw with DE460C shelves |
| Host connectivity | — | HIC slots supporting 100Gb IB/RoCE, 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 12Gb SAS |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand SRP |
| Clustering | — | Dual active-active controller HA pair |
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