Dell SC Series vs Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System comparison

Dell Technologies and Huawei are both solutions in the Frame-Based Disk Arrays category. Dell Technologies is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.3, while Huawei is ranked #4. Dell Technologies holds a 13.3% mindshare in FBDA, compared to Huawei’s 10.2% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution.

Dell SC Series

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0% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell SC Series

Ranking in Frame-Based Disk Arrays

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (27th)

Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage...

Ranking in Frame-Based Disk Arrays

4th

Average Rating

0.0

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Frame-Based Disk Arrays category, the mindshare of Dell SC Series is 13.3%, down from 19.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System is 10.2%, up from 6.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Steven McClendon

Data Center Server & Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Superior platform with excellent snapshots and cost-saving auto-tiering

I'm a big fan of the SC Series platform. Its feature set is superior to some of the other platforms. The snapshots on SC are excellent, allowing for multiple snapshot schedules for any one system. The auto-tiering functionality intelligently moves new data to the highest performance tier and then progresses it down to less expensive tiers over time, providing cost savings for customers.

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reviewer1456134

General Manager Applications at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Offers good support but there are issues with the language barrier

Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are. They have a really nice marketing team that keeps on promoting all of their successes over various platforms. They are relatively cheaper when it comes to cloud services but they have a few weaknesses at the same time. IBM has AI tools and they have IBM Watson and Huawei doesn't. If you compare our deployment team from IBM versus our technical team from Huawei, with IBM we have five people, and for Huawei, we have 20 people. There is a major difference because you're getting more business from Huawei compared to IBM. We have a separate team for administration, installation, configuration, storage, and cloud.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."

"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."

"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."

"Easy management of volumes: You can create volumes and easily assign them to VMware clusters, increasing their size."

"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."

"It is fast and performs well."

"Dell SC Series offers a lot of performance, being one of the best performing storages Dell ever made."

"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."

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"Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are."

Cons

"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."

"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."

"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."

"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"

"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."

"If Dell SC Series wasn't being phased out, adding an NVMe tier and secure snapshots like those on the PowerStore platform would be beneficial."

"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."

"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."

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"It is an expensive product. They should lower the price."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's absolutely affordable. Again, not having to do a forklift upgrade like some of the others have had to do in the past, it's very affordable for our customers and they continue to buy."

"The SC Series was priced fairly. I wouldn't call it either expensive or cheap because we had a very tight budget, so if they were able to fit in that type of budget, they met our expectations."

"There are costs involving the solution, vendor fees and product safety which are additional."

"We were able to afford two tiers of flash storage at a price where the competition was giving us one tier or just a handful of discs."

"Pricing depends on varying life cycles."

"This solution could be better priced in comparison with other vendors."

"We have found the solution to be affordable."

"It's a very affordable solution."

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Also Known As

SC Series Storage, Compellent

OceanStor T-Series, OceanStor 18000 Series, OceanStor 6800, OceanStor 5000 Series, OceanStor 2000 Series

Overview

Dell EMC SC Series arrays provide a unified platform for the ultimate in performance, adaptability and machine-driven efficiency. SC Series software delivers modern features that help you meet aggressive workload demands using the fewest drives necessary. With an open, future-ready design, SC Series storage integrates seamlessly with applications and infrastructure, enabling you to scale on a single platform and add capabilities without forklift upgrades.

Dell Technologies

The OceanStor V3 DAS is a storage product for direct-attached storage applications. It provides customers with enterprise-class DAS solutions featuring high reliability, elastic scalability, and great cost effectiveness. With a dual-channel, fully redundant, high-density architecture, the storage system employs modules and 12 Gbit/s SAS interconnection technology to achieve industry-leading ease of use and efficiency.

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