We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."
"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."
"The setup is straightforward."
"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 flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"This solution is easy to use."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"The most valuable features are the with back-end dedupe, and the thin nodes. For a 20TB or 60TB, we're using almost a one-to-two ratio."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 34th in All-Flash Storage. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with Dell Unity XT.
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