"I've found the stability to be very good."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"The price could be improved."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"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 configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 1st in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 10 reviews while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 1 review. Dell SC Series is rated 8.0, while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "The performance was staggering and more than what we paid for". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM System Storage DS8000 Series writes "An advanced enterprise storage system with a powerful throughput feature". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is most compared with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series and HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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