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Dell PowerEdge R-Series vs Intel MFSYS25 comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerEdge R-Series
Ranking in Blade Servers
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
354
Ranking in other categories
Converged Infrastructure (1st), Data Center Networking (4th), Rack Servers (1st)
Intel MFSYS25
Ranking in Blade Servers
15th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of Dell PowerEdge R-Series is 4.8%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Intel MFSYS25 is 3.6%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell PowerEdge R-Series4.8%
Intel MFSYS253.6%
Other91.6%
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Featured Reviews

Jose Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Diretor at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Local servers have delivered long-term ERP and virtualization performance while reducing cloud costs
In terms of improving Dell PowerEdge R-Series, to be honest, the product has so many options that I find it very difficult to improve it in terms of product itself. Of course, there will always be some technological evolution and new components, but what the product offers in each generation, and I've already followed five or six generations of Dell PowerEdge from generation 11 up to generation 17, it has always kept pace with technological innovation. In terms of storage, it's always extremely in line with what the market is offering. In terms of memory, each new generation always follows the newest RAM trends. Processors also have both AMD and Intel options. I believe the product already has very high maturity. The availability of redundant power supplies and the availability of off-band management via iDRAC are excellent. The product is already extremely solid and reliable. The most I could perhaps say is that sometimes in some operations, I find iDRAC a bit slow, but that's a characteristic of off-band management because performance comes from a separate card that has its own processor and its own memory, so sometimes it's not as fast as I'd expect from the machine itself. Overall, there really isn't much to say because the product is extremely robust and efficient.
it_user375057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Server Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We're able to set-up multiple VLANs in it.
Hyper V was the best option in case of server fail-over & Storage option was the best with the VD pools assigned to the server modules We have improved a lot, and our customers are very satisfied with the product. We're able to set-up multiple VLANs in it. I think that Intel shouldn't have…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Any necessary adjustments can be made seamlessly without the need to unplug cables, as everything is contained within the rack itself."
"I find features such as easily finding drivers using a service tag to be very useful."
"Dell PowerEdge R-Series is a centralized system, which is reliable, as everybody accesses it, it supports many concurrent users connected to the domain system, and it gives access to files, SharePoint, and all those features without any problem or discontinuity in the features and services that we provide using these servers."
"The maintenance and remote monitoring are valuable."
"PowerEdge is flexible and adaptable. You can you can build whatever you want from it."
"The features of Dell PowerEdge R-Series that I appreciate the most are the central management and the surrounding software as they're integrated and easy to use."
"When we moved to PowerEdge Rack Servers, we converted all the physical legacy servers to the virtualized server, reducing operational cost, maintenance, and improving availability of the environment by 30 to 40%, while increasing functionality from 92 to 93% up to 98 to 99%."
"The upside of Dell solutions over its competitors lie in their support; they are spread across multiple vendors in Israel, and we are really pleased with the support we're getting from the Dell provider we're working with."
"The MFSYS25 is a relatively cheap blade system with a built in "mini" SAN."
"We have improved a lot, and our customers are very satisfied with the product."
 

Cons

"For the internal SD card of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, I would add driver packs so that when you're trying to image bare metal, you don't have to worry about trying to find all the drivers you need to install whatever OS it could be, specifically in our environments in the fed space, since trying to use USB devices is difficult, so adding things on the USB stick and plugging them in for drivers is most of the time not possible."
"While I wouldn't call it a problem, physically mounting the servers into the rails that come with the servers can be a challenge. They could be engineered to be a little bit easier to use. It's not that significant, we can manage it, but you need at least two people to do it together because they're a bit heavy."
"Assessing the new Dell PowerEdge R-Series energy consumption, I find that for the larger servers, it might be a challenge because we require more power and cooling for our data centers."
"In terms of energy use, it takes up a lot."
"If I am to give some criticism, the thing that frustrates me the most about Dell PowerEdge R-Series is the update methodology of the firmware and the long-term maintenance that I need to do."
"We have storage and would like to manage more backups without adding extra storage devices. Maybe it's already there. I need to look at it more."
"PowerEdge could have more configuration options, such as the ability to combine different CPUs, memory volumes, data storage, and memory. The new Intel-based ones are a bit power-hungry."
"We use Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers in the data center. We put the racks in bays. They can improve the compactness so that we can put more of them."
"There is one regular error which irritates me during production hours. It continually gives us COMPONENT UNFIT ERROR."
"The Intel Switches give very poor performance when mixed with anything else."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution."
"The pricing is good compared to other products."
"It's abundantly clear that the specific licensing requirements will be dictated by the intricacies of the machinery we deploy."
"They seem to have become more expensive. I've not done a comparison with other vendors recently. If the price increases more, we would need to do a comparison next year just to make sure that we are benchmarking our server purchases correctly."
"When you compare public cloud solutions to PowerEdge in terms of cost, initially the cost of Dell servers or Dell technology was really high. However, right now it's on par or, maybe, even cheaper when we use Dell hardware. If we don't swap it out in three years and if we stretch it to four or five years, then we can get even more of an ROI versus cloud cost."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The price is reasonable. You have to pay if you want quality. When we purchase something, we have to do some market analysis, and I haven't seen a significant difference compared to other solutions."
"The pricing is very competitive."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
6%
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Small Business126
Midsize Enterprise71
Large Enterprise157
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Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
MFSYS25
 

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Sample Customers

NxtGen Datacenter, Medien-Service Untermain (MSU), Exasol, IndigoVision, Dayco
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