Dell PowerVault vs INFINIDAT InfiniBox comparison

Dell Technologies and INFINIDAT are both solutions in the Enterprise SAN category. Dell Technologies is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while INFINIDAT is ranked #9. Dell Technologies holds a 17.5% mindshare in ES, compared to INFINIDAT’s 6.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of INFINIDAT users who would recommend it.

Dell PowerVault

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Dell PowerVault

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Dell PowerVault and INFINIDAT InfiniBox are competing in the enterprise storage market. INFINIDAT InfiniBox generally has the upper hand due to its superior features and enhanced deployment experience.

Features: Dell PowerVault offers scalable and reliable storage solutions with strong integration. INFINIDAT InfiniBox provides high performance, availability, advanced data protection, and multi-petabyte scalability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: INFINIDAT InfiniBox ensures a streamlined deployment with robust support systems for seamless integration. Dell PowerVault provides straightforward deployment but can vary in complexity depending on configurations.

Pricing and ROI: Dell PowerVault presents a lower initial setup cost, appealing to budget-sensitive buyers, offering good long-term value. INFINIDAT InfiniBox requires higher upfront investment but delivers significant ROI through efficiency and scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerVault

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Fibre Channel (1st)

INFINIDAT InfiniBox

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Enterprise SAN category, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault is 17.5%, down from 28.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of INFINIDAT InfiniBox is 6.5%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise SAN Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dell PowerVault	17.5%
INFINIDAT InfiniBox	6.5%
Other	76.0%

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Fmontenegro Montenegro

CTO at To Be

Storage has supported long-term CCTV archiving and improves on-premises application performance

I think it would be good regarding how Dell PowerVault could improve to have, in addition to the excellent support service that exists, some training courses, forums, and a training school for using these tools. Many people specialize only in this kind of equipment, and others have no idea how to configure them or how they work and always end up depending on people who have spent a long time working with these systems and know how to handle them more because of experience than because of information that can be easily obtained about using this equipment. Everything regarding additional aspects that could be improved in Dell PowerVault has already been mentioned.

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GianpaoloMazzola

Project Deployment at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved

The primary use case for this product is high-performance storage This product has good performance. It is similar to the Dell PowerMax and Pure Storage FlashArray. The InfiniBox has three active controllers. The response time for read requests can be improved. It is not as good as the solution…

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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

"For customers who require entry-level storage, Dell PowerVault is an excellent choice."

"I would say my favorite features of Dell PowerVault are that it's pretty easy to use, it has been pretty stable, firmware updates have been pretty easy to install, and replacing a bad drive is fairly simple."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its ability to provide small to medium-range storage. It doesn't have any specific standout features, but it's great for applications, such as surveillance where a large number of videos need to be recorded and performance isn't a priority."

"Dell is a good company to work with."

"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."

"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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"This product has good performance."

"Its ease of use, smooth integration into the existing environment, quick and easy management, the number of other features available such as snaps, remote replica, etc are valuable features."

"Overall, this is a good product with good performance."

"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."

Cons

"Areas where I feel Dell PowerVault could be improved include especially the enterprise area and multiple interfaces in other areas, for example, backup software solutions and their integration."

"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."

"The tool needs to improve its UI."

"The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required."

"I would like to see improvements made to the user interface."

"There is room for improvement with Dell PowerVault as we did have some promises about dedupe and compression that did not turn out as promised, but Dell trued up and gave us more storage for no cost."

"We need higher performance and more reliable storage."

"The MD3220i needs to allow for larger drive sizes."

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"The response time for read requests can be improved."

"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."

"The response time for read requests can be improved. It is not as good as the solution from Pure Storage."

"The solution isn’t scalable by itself. It’s a self-contained storage solution, i.e., if you need more space, buy another box."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high."

"The price is reasonable and we are satisfied with it."

"I would rate the pricing model a nine out of ten, with one being expensive and ten being cheap."

"The price of Dell PowerVault could be reduced. It is more expensive than some IBM solutions."

"They are offering a wide range of support models for the customers such as basic support that is budget-friendly, but they also provide a professional support solution that is a bit costly"

"I rate the solution's pricing a seven to eight out of ten."

"It is important to remember that the retail price may seem high, but the final price is usually different."

"Dell PowerVault's price is the tool's main attraction."

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"The best features come included without any additional cost."

"The license covers any feature and also, the future features are already included. It is as easy as a 1, 2 and 3."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	13

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerVault?

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Overview

PowerVault MD3 storage arrays help you cost-effectively address the challenges of data growth with versatile solutions that are optimized for smaller-scale storage consolidation, flexible virtualization projects and high business continuity.

Dell Technologies

InfiniBox, high performance enterprise data storage, eliminates performance, availability and scalability issues to accelerate critical business applications. Based upon a fully abstracted set of software driven storage functions layered on top of industry standard hardware, INFINIDAT delivers a fast, highly available, and easy-to-deploy storage system.

Unmatched reliability and performance (99.99999% uptime) is delivered through an innovative self-healing architecture, high performance double-parity RAID, and comprehensive end-to-end data verification capability. In addition, an efficient data distribution architecture that uses all drives all the time, and a very large flash cache, deliver ultra-high performance with up to 1M IOPS, and over 12GB/s throughput along with our InfiniMetrics detailed performance monitoring.

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Dayco, FAW Foundry, University of Cambridge, Finder, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co.

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