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Dell Unveils PowerScale F910: A Leap in Performance and Density

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Dell Unveils PowerScale F910 Performance

Business Honor
17 June, 2024

This new system essentially upgrades the F900 by transitioning from Cascade Lake to Sapphire Rapids CPUs

Dell has announced the launch of its latest addition to the PowerScale family, the F910 system, featuring a parallel file system. PowerScale, derived from Dell's acquisition of EMC Isilon, expands its all-flash lineup with this advanced model. Prior to the F910, the series included the F200, F210, F600, F710, and F900 models, with the F210 and F710, which utilize the PCIe Gen 5 bus and Sapphire Rapids Intel CPUs, being the most recent updates as of February. The F910, similar to the F900, comes in a 2RU chassis equipped with 24 NVMe drives, capable of supporting up to 1.87 PB of storage per node using 61 TB SSDs, presumably QLC drives from Solidigm. Dell's Tom Wilson, a senior product manager in the Unstructured Data Solutions group, highlights that the F910 offers 20 percent more density per rack unit compared to the F710.

This new system essentially upgrades the F900 by transitioning from Cascade Lake to Sapphire Rapids CPUs and from PCIe Gen 3 to Gen 5. It operates on the OneFS v9.8 operating system, compared to the F210 and F710's OneFS v9.7, and is available both on-premises and as APEX File Storage in the public cloud via AWS and Azure. Dell claims the F910 delivers 127 percent more streaming performance than its predecessor, the F900, and up to six times the speed of Azure NetApp Files. Additionally, it is touted as the first Ethernet storage system compatible with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD, marking a significant milestone in high-performance computing and AI workloads.