We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"There's some new stuff coming with 7.3, which just got released, where they're spreading the sparing across the whole array, rather than having a dedicated spare disk, and have it sit there and do nothing until one of them dies, and then it kicks in - and having to rebuild all of that. Now, they'll do the sparing across all the disks and they say that is going to add not only space but performance to the array, with 7.3."
"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"The setup and installation is much simpler now, because Dell has standardized the configure process."
"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."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."
"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."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"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 SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"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."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is ranked 2nd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM System Storage DS8000 Series writes "Great Global Copy and Global Mirror features with an easy initial setup". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor, whereas IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is most compared with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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