Dell PowerStore vs Huawei OceanStor Dorado comparison

Dell Technologies and Huawei are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Dell Technologies is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while Huawei is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.4. Dell Technologies holds a 14.7% mindshare in AFS, compared to Huawei’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Huawei users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell PowerStore are in the competitive storage solutions category. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is favored for its pricing and support, while Dell PowerStore is distinguished by its features, making it a worthwhile investment.

Features: Huawei OceanStor Dorado highlights performance, reliability, and an intuitive management console. Dell PowerStore excels in scalability, innovative data protection, and advanced automation capabilities. Users find that while Huawei offers excellent performance and reliability, Dell provides greater innovation and scalability, appealing to a wider range of needs.

Room for Improvement: Huawei OceanStor Dorado users suggest better integration with third-party applications and enhanced analytics. Dell PowerStore users seek more straightforward updates and improved documentation. Although both products have room for advancement, Huawei users focus on integration and analytics, while Dell users desire easier updates and clearer documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Huawei OceanStor Dorado is praised for straightforward deployment and responsive support. Dell PowerStore is valued for its detailed deployment guides and dedicated support team. While Huawei offers a quick setup and reactive support, Dell delivers comprehensive assistance and structured deployment processes.

Pricing and ROI: Huawei OceanStor Dorado is commended for its cost-effectiveness and strong ROI. Dell PowerStore, while more expensive, is considered worth the investment due to its features and flexibility, providing good ROI as well. Users note Huawei's cost benefits, but Dell's superior features justify its higher price.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Organizations reduced costs and improved performance with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, achieving quick ROI and efficient resource management.

Sentiment score

5.7

Dell PowerStore boosts efficiency and reduces costs with enhanced data management, NVMe reliability, and compression features, exceeding business expectations.

Sentiment score

5.5

Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers excellent ROI with low cost of ownership, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, despite higher initial costs.

If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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If you purchase storage with 300 terabytes, you can easily achieve one petabyte of effective capacity.

AdnanAli Khan

Regional Sales Manager at New Horizon Computers

It's been trouble-free the entire time, with very high performance, as it has been designed and built properly.

reviewer2709102

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen a return on our investment in Dell PowerStore; definitely our cost per terabyte has been very good compared to some of the other vendors that we would have been using previously, and our performance benchmarks have exceeded what we were expecting.

Eoin O’Brien

Director of Global Platform at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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They are, however, available and reliable, so it is a good investment.

Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe's technical support is praised for responsiveness, despite occasional follow-up issues, earning high customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

6.4

Dell PowerStore support receives varied reviews, praised for responsiveness but occasionally criticized for communication and logistical delays.

Sentiment score

8.3

Huawei OceanStor Dorado customer support is efficient and responsive, with evolving service models and suggested improvements for high-demand regions.

Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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I would rate the technical support of Dell PowerStore between nine and ten out of ten.

Tiby Thomas

Solution Architect at CDA

They're responsive, knowledgeable, and have a quick turnaround.

reviewer2598762

Systems Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Dell support as a ten, focusing on that aspect alone, because it's what allows me to sleep at night.

Alan Farrely

Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Huawei's technical support in Romania for Europe is good.

Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers scalable storage with low latency, easy upgrades, though capacity customization and high costs are noted.

Sentiment score

6.9

Dell PowerStore offers scalable and flexible solutions, accommodating diverse needs with easy expansion and versatile configurations for any business size.

Sentiment score

7.4

Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers superior scalability, efficiently supporting varied organizations with seamless horizontal and vertical expansion, outperforming competitors.

It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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The solution's scalability is a ten out of ten.

Amjed Antari

Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It scales up and scales out both ways, and as our data keeps growing, it is very easy to just keep attaching and keep growing.

Nikhil Desai

Associate Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scaling up can be done from a single enclosure that already has two controllers to a maximum of four storage units with up to eight controllers, and a massive amount of storage can be added.

KiewietKritzinger

Nutanix at Senior System Engineer

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No quotes available

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage offers exceptional stability and reliability with outstanding support, consistently achieving high user ratings for performance and service.

Sentiment score

7.6

Dell PowerStore is stable and dependable, with reliable performance despite occasional upgrade bugs, offering strong alerting and failover capabilities.

Sentiment score

7.9

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is praised for its high reliability and stability, with ratings between seven and ten out of ten.

I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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When I removed all the cables, it failed over within five minutes.

reviewer2707638

Consultant

It's quite stable and reliable in general.

reviewer2794212

Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.

Hamed Mohamed

Adv. Service Manager at ECC Solutions

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No quotes available

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Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.

Dell PowerStore requires enhancements in stability, integration, features, scalability, and user experience for better performance and customer satisfaction.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado faces integration, performance, and usability challenges, compounded by licensing and geopolitical issues affecting adoption.

One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.

Santhosh Sridhara

Cloud Architect at DXC Technology

Storage replication should be essential.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Something needs to be done with the caching to ensure that if some issue occurs, there needs to be an ability to disable caching during maintenance to make it static, safe, and good.

reviewer2402940

CISO Admin at a analyst firm with 51-200 employees

Pricing must also be considered, as Dell PowerStore is quite expensive compared to competitors in the market like HPE Alletra, Huawei Dorado, or Hitachi storage, for example.

Kashif-Naseer

Unit Head - Technology Services at Shahnawaz Ltd

The main reason why people move to Pure Storage is because it's simplified.

Kevinsa Heng

IT Director at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

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Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked.

Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.

Dell PowerStore offers competitive value, straightforward licensing, and cost-effectiveness, with flexibility and attractive deduplication guarantees.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers cost-effective pricing with minimal maintenance, although advanced features may require extra purchases.

While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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Likely the cost is $400,000 whereas IBM may be $250,000.

Hamed Mohamed

Adv. Service Manager at ECC Solutions

Based on my experience, the cost of Dell PowerStore for around 500 GB of capacity is very competitive compared to any other platform in the market.

SachinSharma4

Deputy General Manager at HCLSoftware

I asked for a new quotation on a server, and it is quite expensive; it is really expensive.

Nicolas Philippe

Responsable Plateformes Et Cloud at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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The products they offer are quite cheap.

Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

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Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.

Dell PowerStore offers ease of use, flexibility, performance, scalability, data reduction, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing IT operations.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers high performance, reliable scalability, and cost-effective storage with exceptional features and technical support.

Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

We are satisfied with the performance as it is significantly faster compared to traditional storage options.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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This includes storage sharing, adding servers to the service, and the wireless host connection on the network side.

Naresh K

Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Dell PowerStore offers good integration capabilities, especially since it helps with backup, which is an important aspect.

reviewer2402997

CISO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

In terms of whether my company could reduce the power consumption with Dell PowerStore, I would say that my company had a use case with a customer around three weeks ago where their old Dell EMC VNX Storage System used to draw about 2500 watts compared to Dell PowerStore which drew about 800 watts, which is a really a big saving looking at the twenty-four hours and seven days of usage of the system.

Lukas Rueckerl

Data Center Consultant at a retailer with 11-50 employees

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The fast performance and reasonable pricing of Huawei OceanStor Dorado are the main reasons we sell them.

Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

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Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell PowerStore is 14.7%, down from 17.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is 4.4%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell PowerStore	14.7%
Huawei OceanStor Dorado	4.4%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.4%
Other	79.5%

All-Flash Storage

Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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reviewer2304864

Vmware Windows Senior Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Resilience has supported proactive management and secured audit readiness across multiple sites

The resilience in Dell PowerStore benefits my company from an auditing perspective because we know we have that resilience in place. I see Dell PowerStore playing a bigger role in the future because we are starting to use it more, and that is pushing it. The biggest return on investment for me when using Dell PowerStore is scalability. Scalability is key. I can amplify that scalability is the biggest return on investment because we have redundancy between two sites; if something goes down, we have to manage it, but we want to do it proactively.

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Julien GUILLAUMOU

Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems

Inexpensive with fast performance enhances data storage efficiency

We are using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for Hyper Metro and under Datacore products and some Sunpro products Huawei OceanStor Dorado is fast and has significantly improved data storage efficiency. The fast performance and reasonable pricing of Huawei OceanStor Dorado are the main reasons we sell…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	34
Large Enterprise	75

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...

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What do you think about Dell EMC PowerStore? Is it actually a new product?

PowerStore is flexible, scalable, simple, and performant with market-leading economics for a wide range of legacy and...

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How does Dell's EMC PowerStore compare with its EMC Unity XT?

Dell EMC PowerStore is a unified storage platform that has the added benefit of being scalable. The automated managem...

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What's the difference between DELL EMC Powerstore and Powermax NVMe?

Dell PowerStore is an all-solid-state midrange storage system. It has many internal elements taken from other Dell of...

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What do you like most about Huawei OceanStor Dorado?

The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huawei OceanStor Dorado?

The products they offer are quite cheap. However, I do not have much information about licensing since we don't buy t...

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What needs improvement with Huawei OceanStor Dorado?

Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked. From my perspective, it's not ...

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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January 2026

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December 2025

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

PowerStore

OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System

Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

Dell PowerStore is a scalable, high-performance platform supporting both modern and traditional workloads, enhancing IT operations with AI-driven automation and advanced data reduction features.

Designed for flexibility, Dell PowerStore integrates seamlessly with VMware, providing robust security and high IOPS. Users benefit from fast NVMe storage, intelligent data management, and scalable performance to handle diverse workload demands. However, improvements are needed in replication, enterprise functionalities, and UI complexity. Stability and support issues highlight the need for enhanced monitoring and pricing strategies.

What are the key features of Dell PowerStore?

Advanced Compression: Optimizes storage capacity effectively.
Data Deduplication: Reduces redundant data, improving efficiency.
Scalability: Easily adjusts to growing business needs.
VMware Integration: Enhances virtualization performance.
AI-Driven Management: Simplifies IT operations.
NVMe Storage: Provides fast, reliable access to data.
Robust Security: Ensures data protection.

What benefits does Dell PowerStore offer?

High Performance: Supports demanding applications with high IOPS.
Flexible Design: Adapts to changing workload requirements.
Cost Efficiency: Promotes ROI through data reduction and scaling.
Enhanced Management: Streamlines operations with AI and integrations.
Improved Data Handling: Efficiently manages databases and storage.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and IT, Dell PowerStore is critical for VMware virtualization, high-performance databases, and backup storage. It supports hosting virtual machines, mirroring storage, and handling SAP and Oracle databases effectively. Its role in hybrid and on-premises setups showcases its adaptability and integration capabilities for mission-critical tasks.

Dell Technologies

Huawei's OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage is the ideal choice for enterprises' mission-critical business. It is the industry's first commercial use of NVMe all-flash storage, and it delivers high-performing, reliable, and efficient storage services.

Huawei

Sample Customers

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Telecom Italia, Hi3G Sweden, KPN

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