There are four chassis options in the NX series - the NX440, NX430, NX3240 and NX3340. Appliances in the Dell Storage NX family have a starting price of $2,499 and go up from there.
Dell NX Series NASĭell designed the NX series of NAS appliances to provide an affordable option for organizations that need NAS storage but aren't necessarily looking for the largest or most feature-rich NAS. Dell EMC's comparison page does not list the networking specs for the F810, but given the similarities between the two units, it seems likely that they support identical networking configurations.īoth NAS appliances conform to a 4U design and have a throughput of as much as 15 GBps per chassis. The F800 comes with twin 10 GbE SP+ or twin 40 GbE QSFP+ ports per node for front-end networking, and two InfiniBand or two 40 GbE QSFP+ ports per node for back-end networking. The F800 and the F810 include four Intel Xeon processors (E5-2697A v4). Both appliances include 60 drive bays, but the F800 supports a minimum disk size of 1.6 TB, while the minimum disk size for the F810 is 3.84 TB. These capacities are based off disk capacity. The F800 has a minimum capacity of 96 TB, while the F810 has a minimum capacity of 230 TB. This series includes the F800 and the F810, both of which can deliver as much as 250,000 IOPS per chassis.īoth models have a maximum capacity of 924 TB per chassis. Those primarily interested in performance should look at the Isilon F series of all-flash NAS storage devices. Dell EMC Isilon F Seriesĭell EMC provides several different flavors of its Isilon NAS appliances. The appliance has a capacity of 72 TB to 144 TB per chassis, and each chassis has a throughput of 12 GBps. It supports a maximum of 120 SAS drives per chassis, along with four to eight SSDs for caching. The top tier model in this series is the Dell EMC Isilon H600. It has a capacity of up to 800 TB per chassis, and each chassis has a throughput of 8 GBps.
The H5600 supports a maximum of 80 SATA drives per chassis, along with four to eight SSDs for caching. It has a capacity of 120 TB to 480 TB per chassis, and each chassis has a throughput of 5 GBps. The H500 supports a maximum of 60 SATA drives per chassis, along with four to eight SSDs for caching. It has a capacity of 120 TB to 480 TB per chassis, and each chassis has a throughput of 3 GBps. This device supports a maximum of 60 SATA drives per chassis, along with four to eight SSDs for caching. The lower-end model is the H400, which fits four Isilon nodes into a 4U chassis. The Dell EMC NAS appliances differ in terms of performance and capacity. Each of these devices uses a densely packed 4U chassis. Among Dell EMC's hybrid scale-out NAS offerings are the H400, H500, H5600 and H600. The Dell EMC Isilon series includes a collection of hybrid NAS devices, designed to act as scale out storage. Dell EMC Isilon A200 NAS storage appliance Both appliances also include either two InfiniBand or two 10 GbE ports for infrastructure connectivity. Likewise, both appliances supply front-end connectivity through two 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) SFP+ ports. While the A2000 offers the same caching options as the A200, it seems unlikely that customers will invest in cache storage if using the appliance for deep archiving as Dell EMC suggests.īoth the A200 and the A2000 include four Intel Pentium processors (D1508). The A200, on the other hand, supports the use of 2 TB, 4 TB or 8 TB disks. In contrast, the A2000 has a fixed capacity of 800 TB based on the use of 80 10 TB disks.
In the interest of improving archive performance, the appliance can accommodate either four or eight SSDs that act as a storage cache. The total capacity ranges from 120 TB to 480 TB per chassis. The Dell EMC Isilon A200 NAS Storage appliance consists of a 4 rack unit (U) chassis that accommodates as many as 60 SATA drives. This is evident in each appliance's capacity and caching options. The A200 is aimed at general archive storage, while the A2000 is designed for deep archiving. These archiving appliances include the Dell EMC Isilon A200 and A2000. The Dell EMC Isilon line includes NAS appliances designed for data archiving.