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 #10. Dell Technologies holds a 29.6% mindshare in ES, compared to INFINIDAT’s 2.4% 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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100% willing to recommend

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.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerVault vs. INFINIDAT InfiniBox Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Dell PowerVault vs. INFINIDAT InfiniBox

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerVault

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Fibre Channel (1st)

INFINIDAT InfiniBox

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Enterprise SAN category, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault is 29.6%, up from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of INFINIDAT InfiniBox is 2.4%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise SAN Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell PowerVault	29.6%
INFINIDAT InfiniBox	2.4%
Other	68.0%

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RichardLynch

Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Administrative ease and dependable support consistently enhance our operations

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 updates are pretty easy to do. Replacing a bad drive is fairly simple. It is just fairly easy to administer it.

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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 us, the initial setup was easy."

"Dell PowerVault is cheap."

"The most valuable features are that it's easy to set up PowerVault. I also like the provisioning of storage."

"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."

"The storage has been good."

"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."

"Dell PowerVault is user-friendly and easy to deploy."

"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."

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

"This product has good performance."

Cons

"The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement."

"In most instances, clients are using Dell PowerVault with tape drives, but we want to transition them away from tape drives due to the risk of data loss."

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

"We could set up the installation through a web server, but it's not very reactive on the web server. For example, when you launch a task, and you don't know exactly if the task has begun or if the task is in progress, or if it's finished. You have to wait for three to five to ten minutes to be sure that the task is running or in progress or finished. So at that point, it's not very good."

"If you do not have an existing relationship with Dell or are exploring the market for the first time, the initial acquisition cost of Dell PowerVault is high compared to competitors such as Hitachi or IBM, which often undercut prices."

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

"Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually."

"PowerVault doesn't integrate with Active Directory. Other storage solutions offer SAN and NAS unified storage in a single appliance, but PowerVault is only SAN."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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"

"The solution is more cost-effective than the competitors. It’s an affordable option for small businesses."

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

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

"The product is inexpensive."

"I rate Dell PowerVault a six or seven out of ten for pricing."

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

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

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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

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	10

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell PowerVault?

Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage.

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

I don't get involved in the negotiations for price for Dell PowerVault. We get a pretty good discount. I don't think it's terribly priced, but Pure Storage is cheaper.

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What needs improvement with Dell PowerVault?

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 cos...

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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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