Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F vs NetApp AFF A90
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F is Lenovo's highest-performing all-flash block storage array, engineered for extreme AI/ML workloads, Exascale HPC file tiering, and high-throughput real-time transactional systems. The NetApp AFF A90 is an active-active enterprise all-flash storage array designed for demanding transaction processing, virtualization clusters, and data analytics.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F | NetApp AFF A90 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2023 | May 2024 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active controller canisters with 256GB total system cache (128GB per controller) | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch U.3 NVMe SSD bays; expandable up to 120 NVMe flash drives | Up to 48x internal NVMe SSDs in 4U chassis, expandable with NS224 shelves |
| Host interfaces | Up to 8x 64Gb FC, 200Gb NVMe-oF (RoCE/InfiniBand), or 25/100Gb iSCSI host ports per canister | — |
| Max performance | Up to 3,000,000 IOPS and up to 44 GB/s sequential throughput | — |
| Features | Dynamic Disk Pools, sub-100us latency, NVMe-oF host attachments, synchronous replication | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap 1800W Titanium power supplies | — |
| Management | SANtricity System Manager (HTML5 web GUI) | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 4U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon Scalable multi-core processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 512GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM write caching |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB to 30.7TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 260PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe expansion slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, 64Gb FC, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3 |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
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