Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers Stability
This is a stable solution.
View full review »The stability is fine. It meets our needs.
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are very stable. I would rate them a ten out of ten in terms of stability.
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Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
April 2024
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reviewer2009118
Director at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I haven't ever had a fault on a Dell server. I've never had to call out a Dell engineer to fix a fault on a Dell PowerEdge Server. I may only have 10 boxes and if someone else has 100, it might be a different story, but I can only speak from my experience.
I have had issues with Dell laptops and consumer items, but I have never had a fault on data center products, small business servers, or network switches. I'm very impressed. On the consumer electronics side, I don't think they're anywhere near as robust, and perhaps they could learn a lesson from the enterprise side.
The stability is a 10 out of 10. PowerEdge Rack Servers are rock-solid. I don't have a bad word about it because I haven't had a fault.
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Sascha Ernst
Service Owner Basic Infrastructure at Goldfish IT solutions
In terms of rock-solid stability, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are a near-perfect ten out of ten. However, even the most robust machinery is susceptible to the occasional gremlin, and we've encountered instances where an SSD might unexpectedly conk out, a RAID controller hiccups, or a battery throws a tantrum. It's the nature of the beast; these are, after all, intricate marvels of engineering comprised of numerous, hardworking mechanical components. It's like that saying... even the sturdiest oak can shed a leaf or two now and then.
But here's the beauty of Dell's proactive approach: when one of these hiccups does occur, their automated error reporting system ensures we're promptly notified. It's happened before – we'd stroll into the office on a Monday morning, greeted by a chipper receptionist with, "Guess what? A taxi dropped off a replacement hard drive at 3 AM on Saturday!" "Which hard drive?" we'd gasp, scrambling to review the security footage. And there it was, undeniable evidence of a fallen comrade. Turns out, Dell had pre-emptively dispatched the cavalry, delivering the fresh drive two days prior - all without us even missing a beat.
View full review »Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are stable. I have never had an issue.
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reviewer2267052
Group IT Manager at a mining and metals company
The solution is highly stable.
View full review »It is very stable.
I am using it for backup, so it has to be reliable. Even in cases where there is downtime, we can then use the solution to retrieve data.
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Reviewer343234
Systems Engineer at Air France KLM
The stability is good.
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Emile Maas
IT Manager at Teledyne Technologies Incorporated
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers have been incredibly reliable, minimizing unplanned production downtime. Over the past 11 years, I have experienced very few issues, such as only one failed hard drive. The servers have been stable, even during moves and power cycles, consistently performing well.
Dell hardware is not as stable as HP hardware.
View full review »They are very stable. They last a very long time.
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reviewer1907217
Professional Services Architect at Matrix
PowerEdge Rack Servers have helped to reduce unplanned production downtime. The organization will not have downtime at all if you can migrate VMs between servers, but you need at least two. With two or three clusters, you can convert the machines.
The stability is very good, if you have at least two servers. Then, you have full redundancy of all the VMs and the system. If one server has downtime, then all the data in the VMs on the server convert automatically to the other. Therefore, you need at least two or three servers to have full redundancy.
Our customers can run the systems in their organization 24/7 without any downtime.
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Philippe Bonnemayre
Systems Engineer at BnF
They are very stable. They last a very long time.
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Stefan Hermes
Director/technischner it- leiter at Wagner it-consulting
I have no complaints about the stability of our Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers. They perform well, are powerful, and experience few failures.
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reviewer2339181
Head of Backup at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
So far, we have had no stability problems. They are very stable.
JP
reviewer2318376
Team Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The tool is stable.
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reviewer2380809
CTO at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees
They are rock solid.
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Pascal Blonde
Administrator Systems de Reseaux at Renater
They are stable. There is no downtime or breakdowns.
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Carlos Renedo
Coordinador de IT at Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
The stability of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is very good.
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Hussein Harb
Director at mindIT
It's very stable. We have been using it for ten years.
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reviewer1851987
Platform Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This product seems stable to me. Compared to products from other vendors, I don't have as many problems with them.
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Auke Van Der Linden
Web Design, IT & Organization of Art Events at Fluor Corporation
This is a stable solution.
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reviewer1851828
Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
This is a stable solution.
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reviewer2380641
Director at a cloud provider with 1-10 employees
They are very reliable.
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Fabrice Valerio
Adj Directeur at Boursorama
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are stable. I would rate them a ten out of ten in terms of stability because I have no problem.
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Doug Crook
IT Manager at One Answer Insurance
The servers that I have, have been humming away without me having to deal with them in any way, outside of Windows issues. Those issues have nothing to do with PowerEdge. They are the standard Windows issues. Overall, they've been working the way they're supposed to, so I have nothing bad to say about them.
View full review »Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers powered by Intel are reliable, so I can say that they have reduced unplanned production downtime.
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OfirGal
Product Manager - Cyber app Security at Amdocs
PowerEdge Rack Servers powered by Intel are easier to handle in regards to upgrade and maintenance than any other solutions. It saves us over 50% of our time.
View full review »For stability, there's really no other product that I would trust.
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reviewer2380758
Head of Infrastructure at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees
They are very stable.
View full review »We do not have too many reports of the platform being unstable, but it is not something I would directly get involved with.
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Michel Desconnets
Responsable Infrastructure at a media company with 201-500 employees
I have never had any problem with the stability of the Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers. Our system has been running smoothly with no downtime for a very long time. Therefore, there have been no issues up to now.
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LuisDiaz
IT at Seitt r3r5
The stability is very good. Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are very stable.
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DhanyswarJagroop
System Administrator at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable and reliable.
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reviewer1369371
Professor at a university with 1-10 employees
PowerEdge servers powered by Intel are highly stable. Some of them have stayed on for two years without ever rebooting. Usually, they only reboot for maintenance or something happening in the building, but it is not due to a failure of the machine. Stability is essential because we have jobs that sit on the system for a couple of days.
View full review »Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers powered by Intel are very stable.
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reviewer1332702
Field Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The solution delivers what it promises. You look at the specs and it delivers them. If it doesn't deliver you move onto another model.
There's really nothing special about it, and Dell doesn't make servers that are any better than anybody else's. The prime reason we chose it is that it delivers what it promises to deliver in terms of IOPS and the price right for us because when you're a platinum level reseller for a server company, they will give you very favorable terms especially in this time of a pandemic, hardware sales are down across the board for the entire industry.
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Kees Van Vliet
VMware Specialist at Haaglanden Medisch Centrum
We have not had any issues with the stability of the servers.
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reviewer2318313
Engineering Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
In our company, we have had some really good results with the product's hardware, but we also had a couple of sets of hardware be bought that had a lot of memory errors, so we needed to have a lot of DIMM hardware replaced. In my company, we had really stable sets of hardware and not-so-stable ones as well.
View full review »Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is a pretty stable solution. When there's something wrong with the hardware or hard drives, it can be changed in a running system.
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Aharon Bagraman
Programmer Sysadmin at a university with 10,001+ employees
The primary reason that we chose PowerEdge - they are stable and don’t crash.
I keep my firmware, BIOS, and drivers up-to-date. Regarding security, we have not had any incidents.
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Ron W.S.
Analytics at Israel InterUniversity Computation Center
There haven't been any issues with downtime.
View full review »PowerEdge is very stable.
There are issues, of course, but not major issues. On a scale of one to 10, the stability is a nine.
View full review »This is a very stable solution.
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reviewer2380791
Manager, Information Technology at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It offers excellent stability.
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reviewer2380770
IT-Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
These servers are very stable.
View full review »The tool is stable compared to other products.
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Thierry Bourel
DSI at Mediactive SAS
The stability is fine. They are stable if they have been updated with the updates. As far as we are concerned, there is no downtime on the platform. Of course, we have to restart some servers, but because they are load-balanced, it does not at all impact our production. We just put them in maintenance mode, and we use the VMware solution.
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reviewer2260503
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers have been stable, which is why I have been using them for 20 years.
View full review »Stability-wise, this product is solid. We have very little downtime.
I need to make sure that the images that are running on the blades are reliable, and it provides that. Beyond that, I'm happy with the performance.
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Matthieu Enders
Ingénieur système at a media company with 51-200 employees
They are stable.
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reviewer2318388
IT Engineer
We are highly satisfied with the level of stability provided.
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reviewer2335590
Leiter interne IT und Rechenzentrum at a media company
While Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers have generally garnered a stellar reputation for their reliability and performance, we did encounter a recent hiccup on one of our machines. Thankfully, a dedicated support case was promptly established to address the issue. It turned out to be a faulty component, which was swiftly replaced, and the machine was soon humming along once more. All in all, our experiences with these servers have been overwhelmingly positive, with this singular incident serving as a minor bump in the road.
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reviewer2004255
Infrastructure and Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Its stability is very good. Its performance has always gone up in leaps and bounds. They've always been ahead of the curve, and we've always got the best technology from Dell.
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reviewer1909638
Senior Manager of IT at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
It has performed the way that we expected it to with no technical problems. I don't recall any problems with the server itself that required us to call support or get replacement parts. It does what we expect it to do.
It's stable. It's working 24/7, 365. We don't ever stop it. We have two offices in Israel, and each has two PowerEdge Rack Servers. They're monitoring our testing environment and that environment is running 24 hours a day, so the servers are very heavily utilized.
We usually keep them for four years or stretch them to five years with a warranty extension. We wreck them and have never had to deal with any problems. The PowerEdge servers we have are the third generation that we purchased for this specific role. I'm assuming the integration team that requested these models specifically is satisfied with the outcome.
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reviewer1068876
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
It's very stable. I would give it a ten out of ten. The system is pretty redundant, so we never really have any downtime.
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Ahmad Asghari
IT-administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
These servers are stable. Their reliability is just right.
The solution is very stable and serves its purpose.
View full review »The stability is really good.
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reviewer2380644
Chief Executive Officer at a cloud provider with 1-10 employees
Stability is excellent overall. We've encountered only one issue, which pertained to a SAN rather than a server. This occurred due to a peak in energy, affecting the controller within the rack. Nonetheless, stability remains consistent for our servers.
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reviewer2380614
SRE at a government with 51-200 employees
It provides excellent stability capabilities.
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reviewer1045272
Sr IT Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Evaluating the stability of Dell PowerEdge servers, we focus on security patching and follow-ups on vulnerabilities. While our team emphasizes security core aspects, our primary concern is a balance between green IT and cost efficiency. Power and heat consumption are challenges across all brands, mainly influenced by Intel chips.
The server's reliability in storage is dependent on how storage is divided over multiple storage arrays. Although downtime is required for server replacement, the overall architecture provides a good overview and easy management of multiple servers.
The stability of Dell PowerEdge servers is excellent, with minimal hardware defects in the last three years. The impact of server maintenance is reduced due to virtualization, allowing easy movement of VMs within the cluster. I would rate the stability as a nine out of ten.
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reviewer2316993
System Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It's great. It's stable so far. I have not experienced any issues with stability, so I would definitely say it's good.
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reviewer2289357
Technology & Digital Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have never seen any major issues with stability. They are stable.
View full review »The stability is about a seven out of 10.
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reviewer2007348
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
We've never had any outages, so the stability is perfect, or as close to perfect as you can get.
We've had the UPS kick in a couple of times and they've stayed up; they haven't died instantly. They are perfectly acceptable and I can't see any issues with them at all.
View full review »This is a stable solution. It offers reliability and we have not had any outages. It improves with every generation.
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Matthias Reuter
Team leader operations connectivity at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are renowned for their unwavering stability and steadfast reliability. Their robust construction and cutting-edge technology ensure exceptional uptime and unwavering performance, even under demanding workloads. These servers stand as an unyielding foundation for your critical applications, delivering peace of mind and unwavering confidence in our IT infrastructure.
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reviewer2339151
Administrador sistema at a maritime company with 51-200 employees
The stability of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is very good.
DG
reviewer2339154
Responsable de sistemas at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is extraordinary.
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reviewer2318391
It system engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The solution's stability is good.
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reviewer1907208
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We haven't had any downtime with them due to anything on Dell's side. So far, they haven't failed.
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reviewer1851933
Vendor Account Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
This is a stable solution.
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reviewer2380581
Teamleitung Technical Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Stability is paramount, and it's the feedback we consistently receive from our technicians. When we seek their advice on hardware selection for various solutions, they consistently recommend Dell without hesitation.
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reviewer2328177
Teamleiter IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees
The servers have good stability. Servers need to run smoothly, and Dell servers do that reliably.
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reviewer1851948
Sr. Principal Product Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's a pretty stable solution; no issues have been reported. All of the customers are pretty happy with the Dell PowerEdge Rack servers.
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Md. Shohel Rawshan Sarker
Manager at Mutural Trust Bank
I feel Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers to be reliable solutions for rack only because this rack solutions is not applicable to other cases. It is reliable, based on the rack solution.
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Md. Lyas Uddin Bhuiyan
Senior Manager at Express Systems Limited (ESL)
The Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are definitely stable. Once we start one, we don't shut them down. The run for three, four, or five years at a time, and the performance does not decrease.
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Mehdi Gharbi
Head of Alliance at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are very stable.
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reviewer2072877
IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
They're pretty reliable, so we don't have to replace them that often; we just have to maintain them.
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reviewer1852578
Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
There hasn't been a whole lot of downtime and zero issues with stability.
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reviewer2318322
ITAdministrator at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The overall stability is excellent. There is almost no downtime, and the system runs smoothly. PowerEdge servers have significantly minimized production downtime for me. They run smoothly without causing any hassles, allowing me to focus on administration. Updates are infrequent, and the system operates seamlessly in the background, requiring minimal attention.
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reviewer1851978
Associate Director, Health Information Technologies at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a pretty reliable product.
View full review »PowerEdge servers are stable in general, but sometimes clients report having problems with the RAM.
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reviewer2318385
Global Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We never faced any stability issues with the solution.
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reviewer1852446
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This is a stable solution.
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Klodian Maloku
Director of IT at Sigal
It is very stable.
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Frisal Argha Kusumah
Automation Service Engineer (DCS) at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
THe solution is very, very stable. It's one of its greatest features. The solution doesn't crash or freeze. It doesn't have bugs or glitches. It's worked well for us.
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Steffen Seifer
System Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
They are very stable.
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Jitesh Rathod
Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch
It's a very stable solution.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
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RamaswamyK
M. I. S. Manager at Ruby Mills Ltd
It's a very stable solution.
We have many servers still running with this solution because our new one has not yet been commissioned.
We have the exchange server, ERP that is running on it, file sense servers, and the security server is running.
We plan to continue using this solution in the future.
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Anil Kale
Sr. Technology Consultant at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is good. It also lasts a relatively long time. Our customers are typically looking for something that will hold up for about five years, and this solution does that. It's not buggy. There aren't glitches. It doesn't crash or break down.
View full review »For the most part, my experience with Dell was in conjunction with VMware vSphere, and VMware View. There were some issues that I encountered with the servers, but it is a result of having multiple server generations with different processors in place, which caused some problems with HA and DRS with VMware, but these don't necessarily quality as issues with the servers themselves. From a hardware perspective, these servers have always been rock solid.
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reviewer2380632
System Engineer at a cloud provider with 1-10 employees
In terms of stability, overall it has been satisfactory, although we encountered some issues due to outdated hardware. At one point, we experienced failures likely stemming from aging components, such as a faulty CPU that led to the shutdown of certain virtual machines.
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Florent ADODO
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier
It's a stable solution and we plan to continue using it.
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reviewer1437750
Business Continuity and Data Center Manager at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is very stable.
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reviewer1851834
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This is a stable solution. We have been using it for many years. New versions are sturdy and easy to deploy.
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reviewer1851855
System Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This is a stable solution.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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reviewer1278084
Pre-sale and Post-sale Engineer at a reseller with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable. the performance is good and very reliable. We haven't had any issues so far.
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reviewer1488339
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers is a stable product.
It's a very stable product. From a software and hardware perspective, it's actually a bit more stable compared to other versions and vendors. It's definitely quite resilient, we haven't had many failures, hardware or software failures.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at Realnux
The solution is quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. The performance has been very good.
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reviewer1053426
Vice President Product Management & Strategy at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
These units are very robust. They're rock solid.
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Daniel Lopes
Technical Sales Engineer at Carbon
Stability is quite good, I haven't had any problems so far.
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Mostofa Kamal
Deputy Manager of IT Security Infrastructure at leads
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1000659
CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
It is quite stable. We didn't have a single downtime of failure. Nor have we ever experienced any downtime in electrical components or the hardware. In this way, the server is reliable.
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Reviewer7839213
Scientist/Engineer 'F' with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues.
View full review »There have been no issues with the stability.
View full review »It is stable.
View full review »In the past it has been very stable, but not recently.
View full review »We did not run into any problems.
View full review »In the six years we have been using it, we have never had a fault/failure/malfunction hardware-wise.
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Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.