Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F vs NetApp EF-Series EF600
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 EF600 is an enterprise 2U all-NVMe storage array powered by the SANtricity operating system.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F | NetApp EF-Series EF600 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2023 | Sep 2019 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U 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 24x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 2U chassis |
| 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 SANtricity OS, SANtricity System Manager |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual AMD EPYC processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 128GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 367TB raw in 2U enclosure |
| Host connectivity | — | Host Interface Cards (HICs) supporting 100Gb/200Gb InfiniBand, 100Gb/200Gb NVMe/RoCE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, SRP |
| Clustering | — | High-availability active-active dual controller pair |
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