![]() The PowerEdge R620 can hold up to 10 SFF drives. ![]() With their 12th-generation servers, Dell has increased the internal storage capabilities of their servers significantly. External disk enclosures from either vendor are very expensive. My team at work ended up choosing the D元70 G6 in many cases for applications like file servers, SQL servers, and backup servers because of the large number of local disks. The Dell PowerEdge T710 server could only hold up to 16 SFF drives, but HP’s ProLiant D元70 G6 could hold up to 24. The Dell PowerEdge R710 2U server could only hold up to 8 2.5” (small form factor, or “SFF”) drives, but HP had an option to insert up to 16 in their ProLiant D元80 G7. With their previous generation of servers, Dell lagged behind HP’s internal hot-plug disk capabilities. After reviewing both vendors’ offerings, my initial take is that Dell is raising the bar in terms of storage density and features, and HP is matching some of Dell’s recent gains in system manageability. Dell is calling their new servers “12th generation”, and HP is calling theirs “Gen8″ (generation eight). Both Dell and HP released their first wave of servers based on the new dual-socket Intel Xeon E5 series last week.
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