Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600H vs NetApp E-Series E5700
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The ThinkSystem DE6600H is Lenovo's top-tier high-performance hybrid storage array, designed for maximum throughput, low microsecond latency, and petabyte-scale capacity. The NetApp E5700 is an enterprise hybrid SANtricity storage system delivering high-throughput block data storage for big data analytics, backup and recovery, and high-performance technical computing.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600H | NetApp E-Series E5700 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jan 2023 | Sep 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U/4U rack |
| Raw capacity | Up to 8.64 PB across 576 total drives via external expansion enclosures | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays supporting NVMe SSDs in base unit and SAS enclosures | Up to 480 drives using DE224C, DE212C, and DE460C expansion shelves |
| Power supply | Dual redundant 1600W AC hot-swap power supplies | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U (E5724) or 4U (E5760) enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon multi-core processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs, 10K SAS HDDs, and 7.2K NL-SAS HDDs |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 7.6PB raw per HA pair |
| Host connectivity | — | HIC slots supporting 100Gb InfiniBand/RoCE, 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 12Gb SAS |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand SRP |
| Clustering | — | Dual active-active controller HA pair |
| Management | — | NetApp SANtricity OS |
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