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Dell PowerStore vs Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerStore
Ranking in NAS
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
238
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (4th), Enterprise SAN (1st), All-Flash Storage (1st), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (1st)
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct
Ranking in NAS
15th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Dell PowerStore is 7.7%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NAS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell PowerStore7.7%
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct0.8%
Other91.5%
NAS
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2304864 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
EA
Senior IT Analyst at a government with 201-500 employees
Unified backups have protected our government data and streamlined daily user lifecycle management
One way Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct can be improved is the interface is fine and everything looks good. However, I think we should be able to do more at the kernel level, I mean the CDM level, the CLI level. I am very heavy in CLI, so I would want more of the features to push into the commands as part of the CLI. The other thing I want to add is that the documentation is kind of vague sometimes. I skim through a lot of documents, but I always end up doing things my own way. I would really want the team to improve on the documentation with a lot of screenshots and go-throughs. So far, it has been okay. If I could change or improve one thing about Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct, the features so far are okay for now.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"PowerStore simplified everything because we have a duplicate copy of all the volumes on the primary side."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"It just works with Dell PowerStore."
"We find NAS to be the most impactful feature of Dell PowerStore. The compression and deduplication technology is very important and essential, and this was one of the reasons that we decided to go with Dell PowerStore."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"PowerStore's compression ratio is a valuable feature for our VMs because it gives us a lot back."
"With Dell PowerStore, we have achieved twenty percent savings compared to the previous solution."
"Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct has positively impacted my organization as the holy grail for our county because we basically rely on it every day for off-boarding, on-boarding, accounts being purged, and we are able to bring them back to life, attach old mailboxes to users, detach mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and basically everything, making it such a winning member of the team."
"Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct has positively impacted my organization by showing at least a seventy to eighty percent reduction in manual effort for agent monitoring and investigating, which is exceptional."
"Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct has improved my organization with secured backups, and even in case of attacks, we are safe with respect to the backup data we have."
 

Cons

"Improvements could be made in the replication solutions of Dell PowerStore. Even though replication between Dell PowerStores is possible, high latency connectivity is problematic."
"Dell PowerStore doesn't really have a lot of advantages over other products. It has no special features technically. Other products have better management and analytics features."
"The only weirdness is we have a 7920 that trying to get into with the password is just not the same as the other enterprise models will have it."
"The pricing point must have better positioning. It is somewhat expensive compared to the competition."
"We used to be able to see the metrics for our customers. On Compellent, we could look up that customer and see all the metrics. That is not allowed for us now. We cannot do that anymore. I have to be explicitly allowed by the customer to do that, and some companies' security does not allow that."
"The previous version of Dell PowerStore we used was easier to use compared to the current one. They have made it more cumbersome to handle, although it still works. It has become more complicated to manage."
"Dell PowerStore is a really great device. A potential area for improvement could be a little bit more deduplication."
"From my experience, Dell PowerStore is the best option on the market at the moment, but the worst thing is the price, which is too high compared to IBM or other vendors."
"In terms of stability, Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is still not stable as it is evolving, so I would give it a seven or eight."
"The other thing I want to add is that the documentation is kind of vague sometimes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We purchased it with a five-year warranty."
"We are currently using Dell PowerStore for our smaller storage and there is no competition for pricing."
"PowerStore's pricing is reasonable."
"The pricing rates at seven out of ten as it is considered overpriced. Entry-level models are reasonably priced, starting around $30,000 for a base model with 6 drives. However, upgrades become costly - adding 6 additional drives can cost another $30,000."
"I rate the price of Dell PowerStore a seven out of ten."
"In terms of licensing, my organization has Dell Technologies End User License Agreement (EULA), but I don't know exactly how it works, though it is a big bundle of licenses for Dell Data Domain, Dell EMC Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, Dell ECS, and all such kinds of storage arrays."
"We are happy with the pricing that we get from Dell."
"Dell PowerStore is affordable and the license is just a face license which is great."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business79
Midsize Enterprise45
Large Enterprise119
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

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 next-gen apps. It is only Flash and can support many workloads from today's app...
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 management of resources feature provides a more simple administration. I found the flex...
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 offerings and integrated into the PowerStoreOS. The installation and setup have a ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct?
Regarding the pricing of Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct, I am not sure because there is a separate team who is working on the cost.
What needs improvement with Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is working as expected, and I cannot come up with any improvements. It has given us a great return. Before we take aggressive blocking rules, there is a risk of creating unn...
What is your primary use case for Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct?
My main use case for Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is taking real-time actions to see how they are responding if an agent is working in a certain behavior and how it's going if an agent is misbehaving. I...
 

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Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Dell PowerStore vs. Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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