Hitachi VSP 5600 vs. Dell PowerMax 8500
In similar published performance benchmark comparisons, Hitachi VSP 5600 outperforms Dell's newest PowerMax 8500.1
Data File IOPS
6.8X
More Storage IOPSSystem Bandwidth
48%
Greater System BandwidthHitachi Virtual Storage Platform
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Supports SAS SSD or HDD, NVMe and SCM drives
VSP 5600 vs. Dell PowerMax 8500
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CAPABILITY
(Published Specs)Hitachi
VSP 5600Dell
PowerMax 8500 -
Maximum Performance IOPS
33 Million
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Lowest Latency
39 μs
< 60 μs
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System Bandwidth
312 GB/s
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Hardware Availability
8 9’s (99.999999)
6 9’s (99.9999)
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Carbon Footprint Certified
Yes
No*
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Data Availability Guarantee
100% Data Availability
None
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Common OS and Data Services Across storage portfolio
Yes
No
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Hybrid Storage Media SupportSCM, NVMe SSD & SAS SSD and SAS HDD
Yes
No
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1Benchmark and source documents:
Benchmark comparison for:
- Dell PowerMax 8500 running VDBench unspecified block size w/2:1 & dedupe. PT report lacks node count and cache size tested.
- Dell documents claim their ADR implementation “provides negligible performance impact.”
- Principled Technology states “We ran the test to achieve maximum performance, collecting IOPS and latency data from both storage solutions.”
Source documents:
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