Lenovo ThinkSystem DG5000 vs NetApp AFF C400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The ThinkSystem DG5000 was Lenovo's entry-to-midrange unified all-flash array powered by Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NVMe flash technology and Lenovo ONTAP, based on OEM NetApp AFF C-Series architecture. The NetApp AFF C400 is a midrange capacity all-flash storage system engineered to consolidate secondary enterprise applications and virtualized datastores onto cost-effective QLC NVMe media.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DG5000 | NetApp AFF C400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| Raw capacity | Up to 737 TB raw capacity in 2U base chassis using dense QLC NVMe SSDs | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays supporting high-capacity QLC NVMe solid-state drives | Connects to NS224 NVMe drive shelves (up to 144 NVMe SSDs per HA pair) |
| Power supply | Dual redundant 1200W AC hot-swap power supplies | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors with dedicated crypto/compression offload |
| Memory | — | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe QLC SSDs (15.3TB, 30.7TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 71PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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