User Reviews of Dell SC Series & NetApp NVMe AFF A800

Updated March 2024

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Dell SC Series review

Whitney Gray
Whitney Gray
Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database
There's always room for improvement in the operating code; minor improvements here and there. We haven't had any real requests for them lately. I can't really think of anything. Support for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME). Most of the newer storage systems support it, but this one doesn't because of its age. Support for that was...
NetApp NVMe AFF A800 review

reviewer2081640
Programmer Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI
Cost and speed are the biggest concerns. NetApp systems they're not slow, but they don't match the raw IOPs of some other parallel file systems design. The underlying architecture of the NetApp system isn't as conducive to pure raw speed, whether it's data I/O or metadata I/O, compared to some of their competitors. So that's a significant...

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