Dell SC Series vs IBM System Storage DS8000 Series comparison

"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."

"Dell SC Series' most valuable features are performance and network facilities. We have no issues with its integration. The tool helps to visualize servers."

"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."

"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."

"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."

"Its feature set is superior to some of the other platforms."

"The setup and installation is much simpler now, because Dell has standardized the configure process."

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

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

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

"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."

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

"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"

"We can definitely see a need for it being a multi-controller system for customers who want to scale beyond the current capability. That's always a downside. A lot of the new systems are scaling vertically, they scale out, and the Compellent, of course, is controllers with shelves under it, so you don't scale out with it, unless you add another one. But if you do, they don't talk to each other, like some of the other solutions that we sell."

"Some menus aren't so intuitive."

"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."

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

"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."

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

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

"We have found it to be affordable. Comparing the cost with other hardware, it seems to be right in line with the compute and the storage that we get with it."

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

"The pricing of this solution is competitive."

"The pricing of Dell EMC Compellent is competitive."

"The scalability seems a bit more expensive than even buying a brand new one so far. That has been kind of a drawback."

"This solution could be better priced in comparison with other vendors."

"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."

"Pricing depends on varying life cycles."

"The license is very expensive."