Dell SC Series vs Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System comparison

Dell Technologies and Huawei are both solutions in the Frame-Based Disk Arrays category. Dell Technologies is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while Huawei is ranked #4. Dell Technologies holds a 10.0% mindshare in FBDA, compared to Huawei’s 13.3% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution.

Dell SC Series

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0% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Dell SC Series

Ranking in Frame-Based Disk Arrays

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (17th)

Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage...

Ranking in Frame-Based Disk Arrays

4th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Frame-Based Disk Arrays category, the mindshare of Dell SC Series is 10.0%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System is 13.3%, up from 8.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Frame-Based Disk Arrays Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell SC Series	10.0%
Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System	13.3%
Other	76.7%

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RafaelGamaluis

Architect Engineer, IT INFRASTRUCTURES Project Manager at Vilavi

User interface offers clarity and detailed information while technical support consistently delivers

The best features of Dell SC Series are stability and replication. The replication solution is excellent, and they have a solution named Live Migration. It is a robust platform. The interface and the GUI (graphical user interface) for administrating the Compellent are exceptional, with abundant information that is very clear. The management capabilities are excellent, and the stability of our storage hardware is remarkable.

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reviewer1456134

General Manager Applications at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Offers good support but there are issues with the language barrier

Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are. They have a really nice marketing team that keeps on promoting all of their successes over various platforms. They are relatively cheaper when it comes to cloud services but they have a few weaknesses at the same time. IBM has AI tools and they have IBM Watson and Huawei doesn't. If you compare our deployment team from IBM versus our technical team from Huawei, with IBM we have five people, and for Huawei, we have 20 people. There is a major difference because you're getting more business from Huawei compared to IBM. We have a separate team for administration, installation, configuration, storage, and cloud.

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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

"I've found the stability to be very good."

"Dell SC Series offers a lot of performance, being one of the best performing storages Dell ever made."

"It is easy to use, expand the hard drives, add storage, and set up replication."

"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."

"It is fast and performs well."

"One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management."

"The most valuable feature is the no-forklift upgrade. While the thing is running, I can change out the controllers one at a time and keep the customer up and running. I can add shelves and storage and SSD drives or spinning drives to the system, while it's running. I can bring all that in and rebalance the load across the new disks or, if we take disks away, rebalance the load across what's remaining, and it just works."

"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."

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"Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are."

Cons

"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."

"I don't think the solution is very scalable."

"In the future, I want any box that comes on-premises to have the provision to integrate with cloud storage."

"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"

"The cost of the solution could be better."

"The tool's pricing is high and not suitable for medium companies."

"If Dell SC Series could have supported the protocol NVMe over TCP, that would have been great. It does not."

"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."

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"It is an expensive product. They should lower the price."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The maintenance is usually pretty good. It's not like some of the others where they increase it in the fourth, fifth, or sixth years."

"The pricing of Dell EMC Compellent is competitive."

"It is one of the most cost effective systems for us. We have been able to run it longer than most, getting the most benefit and money out of it."

"It has a good price point and offers some value-added enterprise features."

"Support typically depends on the array. It can range anywhere from $7,000 to a couple of hundred thousand dollars."

"We have found the solution to be affordable."

"We have reviewed many platforms over the years. It is probably the best solution for its value."

"The pricing is reasonable, but it is expensive."

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Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	19

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell SC Series?

In our case, we received favorable pricing with Dell because of our strong partnership. While I acknowledge that Dell SC Series can be expensive for many companies, we received good discounts. The ...

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What needs improvement with Dell SC Series?

For us, it is a great product. The deduplication and compression could potentially be improved, though they are already good. We cannot identify any significant areas that need improvement.

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What is your primary use case for Dell SC Series?

We use Dell SC Series in a VMware environment.

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Also Known As

SC Series Storage, Compellent

OceanStor T-Series, OceanStor 18000 Series, OceanStor 6800, OceanStor 5000 Series, OceanStor 2000 Series

Overview

Dell EMC SC Series arrays provide a unified platform for the ultimate in performance, adaptability and machine-driven efficiency. SC Series software delivers modern features that help you meet aggressive workload demands using the fewest drives necessary. With an open, future-ready design, SC Series storage integrates seamlessly with applications and infrastructure, enabling you to scale on a single platform and add capabilities without forklift upgrades.

Dell Technologies

The OceanStor V3 DAS is a storage product for direct-attached storage applications. It provides customers with enterprise-class DAS solutions featuring high reliability, elastic scalability, and great cost effectiveness. With a dual-channel, fully redundant, high-density architecture, the storage system employs modules and 12 Gbit/s SAS interconnection technology to achieve industry-leading ease of use and efficiency.

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TGen, Frost Science, Gerrie Electric

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