Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series comparison

Huawei and Lenovo are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Huawei is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.8, while Lenovo is ranked #20 with an average rating of 10.0. Huawei holds a 4.5% mindshare in AFS, compared to Lenovo’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Huawei users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Lenovo users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series are two prominent storage solutions that differ in various aspects. Huawei's OceanStor Dorado stands out with superior performance and efficiency, while Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DE Series offers robust features and affordability, making it a tough competitor.

Features: Huawei OceanStor Dorado is praised for its high performance, reliability, and faster data access. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is noted for its strong scalability, versatile integration capabilities, and robust features.

Room for Improvement: Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve in pricing flexibility, user documentation, and advanced customization. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series users suggest enhancing advanced features, reducing complexity, and improving user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Huawei OceanStor Dorado is generally appreciated for its swift deployment process and responsive customer service. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series also has straightforward deployment but occasionally faces setbacks with customer service efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: Huawei OceanStor Dorado is considered more expensive, but users find the ROI justifies the investment with its high performance. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series offers a more budget-friendly setup cost and decent ROI.

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Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

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Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is 4.5%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is 2.4%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Huawei OceanStor Dorado	4.5%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.0%
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	2.4%
Other	92.1%

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Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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Saleem Ahmed

Cloud Architect at ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd.

A highly stable solution that provides features like SmartMigration, HyperReplication, and SmartPartition

Other Huawei mid-end storages, like 5600 and 5500, are very easy to use. Engineers with two to three years of experience with Huawei will find that Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a bit complicated to use compared to other Huawei storages. Unlike other storages, you cannot configure the disk domain and storage pool in Huawei OceanStor Dorado.

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Gastone Canali

IT Consultant at Effegibi

Provides good stability and is reliable in terms of performance

The solution is reliable in terms of performance They should include a snapshot feature for the solution. We have been using the solution for two to three years. The solution is stable. We have 60 solution users in our organization. The solution's initial setup process is easy. It takes three…

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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

"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."

"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."

"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."

"The database workloads are pretty fast because I frequently move data from here to there."

"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."

"It has good, reliable, fast storage."

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"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."

"Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group. Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part."

"Huawei has more features than other vendors. It integrates well with security management solutions, though not directly with databases."

"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."

"Huawei OceanStor Dorado is fast and has significantly improved data storage efficiency."

"Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado."

"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."

"The product offers good performance."

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"The solution is very easy to troubleshoot. It's one of the most valuable features. It also doesn't take long to deploy and normally it comes with a three-year warranty."

"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is quite an elementary box, no frills. It does not have all the functionality of the DM but it is acceptable, it does its task. It integrates pretty well."

"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is simple to use"

"The solution is very easy to set up."

"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is highly reliable, especially for block-level storage. It is stable, with minimal downtime and no issues beyond user errors."

"Its initial setup process is easy."

"ThinkSystem's storage performs well, and the price per gigabyte is good, especially on SSD solutions. It's also easy to use."

"Fewer features is not necessarily a negative as it leads to simpler operation and lower price."

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Cons

"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."

"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."

"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."

"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."

"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."

"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."

"The software layer has to improve."

"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."

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"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."

"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."

"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."

"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."

"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"

"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."

"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."

"Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked."

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"There could be a snapshot feature in the solution."

"The difficult part comes when dealing with the host. You have to enable multi-pathing and other aspects that are needed for proper configuration. I don't know if there is room for a more hyper-conversion structure to work with, but this would be easier."

"The type of connection that is used in Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series should be improved."

"Improvements can be made to the product's performance."

"The solution could be more scalable, although it suits our present needs."

"In the next release, I would like to see more functionality. But, again, it is an entry-level product."

"Its performance could be faster."

"The features are limited."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is an investment that we've budgeted for. While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits. We don't regret purchasing it."

"The product is expensive."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis."

"With Pure Storage, we would like to continue seeing price reductions with flash storage. I don't think we're any different than anybody else when we continue to look to the industry for price reductions of both NVMe and traditional SSD storage. We would like to see these prices continue to decline and erode, even displacing large spinning disks."

"Given its price, Pure is not the first option."

"They can tout the functionality and cutting edge technology that they have, but that's where the price tag comes in. The cost is high, but I think as they grow their business and get more customers that it will probably go down a little bit."

"As far as the licensing costs, everything is included in the license."

"Pure FlashArray X NVMe’s pricing is cheaper than other products."

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"The price of the solution is competitive compared to others, such as Dell EMC and Hitachi. I believe the reason they are providing a discount is they want to increase their penetration into the market."

"It is an expensive solution."

"There are some costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, depending on the requirements."

"You need to pay for the license."

"We saw ROI in terms of both money and time saved. It is worth the price."

"Huawei OceanStor Dorado is more affordable than the competitor solutions"

"The pricing is one thing that works for them. I think their pricing is more competitively affordable than these top competitors."

"The pricing is very competitive."

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"For an all-flash setup, the cost is around $20,000 for a decent configuration."

"The price of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is a one-time purchase. There is a global price list available to find the price of the solution."

"The best thing about this solution is its price, which reduces our costs."

"All of the features are bundled together, and you can renew the bundle with all of the features included."

"The solution's price could be better."

"The pricing is fair and low compared to other products in this category."

"It is an expensive solution."

"The pricing for this solution is good compared to HP or Dell EMC."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	8

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...

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What do you like most about Huawei OceanStor Dorado?

The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huawei OceanStor Dorado?

The products they offer are quite cheap. However, I do not have much information about licensing since we don't buy t...

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What needs improvement with Huawei OceanStor Dorado?

Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked. From my perspective, it's not ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series?

The price of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is very good. We chose this type of storage for the performance and the price.

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What needs improvement with Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series?

The type of connection that is used in Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series should be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series?

I use Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series to replace the old storage in our infrastructure. Additionally, I use it in custom...

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System

ThinkSystem DE Series

Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

Huawei's OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage is the ideal choice for enterprises' mission-critical business. It is the industry's first commercial use of NVMe all-flash storage, and it delivers high-performing, reliable, and efficient storage services.

Huawei

The DE All-Flash Series delivers the performance of more than 2,000 15k rpm HDDs, yet requires only 2% of the rack space, power, and cooling. Because it consumes 98% less space and power, DE Series can significantly improve the overall efficiency of your IT operations while continuing to meet your performance requirements.

Lenovo

Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company

Telecom Italia, Hi3G Sweden, KPN

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