Dell SC Series vs IBM System Storage DS8000 Series comparison

"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."

"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."

"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."

"With auto-tiering, it's easier to understand than most arrays, knowing that all of your writes go to the tier that you specify, with easy-to-create storage profiles."

"It's very scalable, especially with federation. If you outgrow the number of spindles that a unit can support, depending on the model, you can go into federation."

"A valuable feature is the performance of the auto-tiering. It will move hot data up to your fastest Tier 1 or move your slow data down. Data progression is what it's called. With the auto-tiering you can have multiple tiers, you can have your Tier 1 be either spinning or flash, all the way down to 7.2K. It will change the RAID on the fly so your writes come in at RAID 10. After they sit for a while, they get converted to RAID 5, then they'll cool off and move down the tiers. Your performance is kept going, while the cold data is moved to your slow, non-performance tiers."

"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."

"The solution is stable."

"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."

"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."

"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."

"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."

"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."

"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."

"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."

"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."

"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."

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

"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."

"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."

"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."

"We have the basic license for the use of this solution and it is a permanent license. The overall cost could be less, it is expensive."

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

"The pricing of Dell EMC Compellent is competitive."

"Always keep in mind, this is not just a enclosure with disks is a complete SAN as a service. There is software, license, and storage in one single solution."

"We were able to afford two tiers of flash storage at a price where the competition was giving us one tier or just a handful of discs."

"The SC Series was priced fairly. I wouldn't call it either expensive or cheap because we had a very tight budget, so if they were able to fit in that type of budget, they met our expectations."

"Pricing depends on varying life cycles."

"The license is very expensive."