Dell SC Series Stability
Dell EMC SC Series is very stable.
View full review »The stability is okay, however, the performance could be better, as there have been a few issues surrounding latency. In most cases, the customer feedback is positive. It's only in extreme situations where there have been problems.
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Don Woodward
Solutions Consultant at BlueAlly Technology Solutions
It's absolutely stable. There were some issues in the early days with the tiering, but they straightened that out. What was happening was, if the first tier filled up - and it wasn't necessarily because of pinning - but if the first tier filled up because you overran the "write" amount that you had in the first tier, it died, actually.
Dell EMC was really quick in fixing that. Now, if it gets to 90 percent, if you start to overrun that tier, it will start moving stuff automatically. It doesn't have to wait for the tiering, "seven down and three up." The way that it works is, if you're in the top tier here and something is not accessed in the last seven days, it will move down to the next tier and it takes three days to move it up. But with it automatically tiering it down, it can automatically go and take it out of there if it sees that it's going to fill up.
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Dell SC Series
April 2024
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JAEJUNG KIM
Managing Director at Insunginfo
I would rate the stability of this solution eight out of ten.
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Micheal Laggis
Senior Solutions Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It's very stable.
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reviewer926175
Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is perfect. That's why we keep on using Dell EMC products in particular.
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SnSysAdd472
Sr. Systems Administrator Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Very stable. We rarely have any types of issues or failures.
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Managinga2b8
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
So far, I haven't had an incident, so the stability is good. No downtime.
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reviewer1058013
Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
When we installed this solution, we were surprised by how stable and efficient it is.
View full review »SC is a fairly stable platform. I rate SC eight out of 10 for stability.
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reviewer1762782
Infrastructure Business Lead
The performance was staggering and it was more than what we paid for. We were able to bring a lot of juice out from the SC Series. It took us some time, but we were able to get a higher performance once we understood the technology.
The SC Series was very low maintenance, which was one thing that we liked. We had Phone Home enabled, so we were getting all the patches from Dell. They were also able to help us from a drive failure perspective. Nothing went wrong with it—it was a good experience, which is why we are still sticking with Dell.
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Ben Jardine
Managing Director at Consult BenJ Ltd
The stability of the solution is good. There don't seem to be any issues with reliability. There aren't bugs or glitches. It works well.
View full review »Compellent is a stable solution.
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David Winegar
Network Admin at Jefferson County Washington
The stability is okay, and the maintenance response time is excellent.
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reviewer1297803
IT Director - Enterprise Storage and Data Protection at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable.
We have about 60 ongoing operations. As you can imagine, we have had some challenges in the past, but not something that it's more concerning than what might happen when compared to the other storage vendors.
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Darren Norfleet
Storage Team Leader at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It's still an early phase for us, but as of right now it's stable.
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ITManage50af
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable. We have not had too many problems. The issues that have come up have been addressed very quickly via Dell EMC.
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reviewer1398123
Senior Systems Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I have not heard any feedback about bugs or glitches in the system. Once it's in place, it's solid.
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BenoitQuenet
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay.
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Yap Ming Cur
IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Stability is good so far.
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Todd Grimes
IT Architect at Synoptek
It is very stable. Upgrades have been pretty much flawless. Being able to swap out components and upgrade them later on has also been a huge benefit in keeping the platform cost effective.
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KristianPalsmar
Director of Technology with 501-1,000 employees
The product is both stable and scalable.
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reviewer1515345
System Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution is quite stable and the performance is good even though it is getting old. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. We find it reliable.
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Bennie Blakney
Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
As I said, when we first deployed it, there were a lot of upgrades that had to be done. We would have trouble with this or that, networking would fall, stalls, delays. We would have to run through another upgrade. We've got about 50 or 60 of these pieces of equipment, and to do an upgrade would take 30 to 40 hours.
We've had to coordinate that back and forth, as this is a live system. Since we got through that process - and it took weeks - it seems to have been a lot more stable. It's almost to the point now that we can say that we're pleased with it. To begin with, we were ready to throw it out the window.
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Infrastr69c7
Senior IT Infrastructure Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a stable solution. We haven't had any downtime.
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DataCent3afe
Data Center Supervisor with 501-1,000 employees
We haven't had any issues affecting the stability.
View full review »No issues.
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Coo5678
COO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all.
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Infrastrb44c
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I won't entertain any other vendor at this point.
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Virtualiad5e
Virtualization Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't had any issues with stability so far.
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VirtualT40e2
Virtualization Team Leader at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is quite good. I have nothing but good things to say about it.
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David Hammink
System Administrator at Reuter GmbH
So far, so good. However, we have only had it running for four months.
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Nick Goodman
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's a very stable product.
Honestly, most of the complaints I hear about this solution are either because systems have been misconfigured or sized improperly. Probably 90 percent of the issues people have are because it's not sized properly.
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reviewer1515540
Director at a tech company with 11-50 employees
We never had a single crash with this product. It was just fine.
View full review »The solution is very stable.
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reviewer1641264
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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John Mccallister
Automation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is fine until it comes to patching, and then we have issues. Whenever we have issues related to driver and firmware, it's a pain.
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reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The stability of the Dell EMC SC Series is very good.
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Infrastr1ab2
Infrastructure Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 1-10 employees
It has been one of the most stable products in our data center.
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SystemsE1d94
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have no complaints, so far, about the stability.
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reviewer1273260
EMC Storage & Backup Implementation Specialist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
We have zero downtime. There is no disruption at all. It's highly stable with all the types of abundant solutions. All the hardware parts are in abundance.
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SystemEng457
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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Dell SC Series
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell SC Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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