Dell SC Series Pros

KS
Infrastructure Business Lead
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.
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JC
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 11-50 employees
The setup is straightforward.
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Evans Chitando - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Business Technology Consultant at ITech Associates (Pty) Ltd
Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features.
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MN
Director at a tech company with 11-50 employees
It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things.
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GB
Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability.
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AO
System Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I've found the stability to be very good.
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SY
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good.
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SB
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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Koba Sopromadze - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten.
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GS
Senior Presales Solutions Engineer at Metra Group
The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business.
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Dell SC Series Cons

KS
Infrastructure Business Lead
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?
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JC
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 11-50 employees
In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency.
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Evans Chitando - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Business Technology Consultant at ITech Associates (Pty) Ltd
The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage.
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MN
Director at a tech company with 11-50 employees
Dell could improve the upgrading process.
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GB
Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The lack of reporting would be the main issue.
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AO
System Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old.
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SY
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series.
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SB
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations.
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Koba Sopromadze - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The price could be improved.
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GS
Senior Presales Solutions Engineer at Metra Group
This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM.
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Buyer's Guide
Dell SC Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series
March 2023
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell SC Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series and other solutions. Updated: March 2023.
687,947 professionals have used our research since 2012.