Dell SC Series vs IBM System Storage DS8000 Series comparison

"Dell SC Series' most valuable features are performance and network facilities. We have no issues with its integration. The tool helps to visualize servers."

"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."

"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."

"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."

"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."

"The setup and installation is much simpler now, because Dell has standardized the configure process."

"One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management."

"The solution is stable."

"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."

"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."

"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."

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

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

"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."

"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."

"The cost of the solution could be better."

"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."

"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."

"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."

"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."

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

"The scalability seems a bit more expensive than even buying a brand new one so far. That has been kind of a drawback."

"It's a very affordable solution."

"Always keep in mind, this is not just a enclosure with disks is a complete SAN as a service. There is software, license, and storage in one single solution."

"We have the basic license for the use of this solution and it is a permanent license. The overall cost could be less, it is expensive."

"The pricing is reasonable, but it is expensive."

"Compared to other solutions out there, it's affordable."

"The pricing of Dell EMC Compellent is competitive."

"The license is very expensive."