Dell PowerVault Reviews

Expandability is the most important feature for us.

The MD3260 has given us the ability to have longer term storage for our customers and a reasonable price.

The MD3220i needs to allow for larger drive sizes.

We have owned the MD3220i for about 2 years so far and we are new to the MD3260 only owning it for about 2 months.

The only issue during deployment is that Dell has different ways of installing different SANs. We would like to see more standardization when it comes to the full line of Dell storage products.

Customer Service:

I would rate their customer service as a 10 out of 10.

Technical Support:

I would rate their technical support as a 10 out of 10.

The initial setup of both devices we have was not complex but rather tricky considering they are installed and configured in different ways.

We have implemented all of our SANs in house.

With the 3260i, we use it as disaster recovery storage for our customers. Previously with the powervault, we were paying approximately .81 cents per GB. With the 3260, we are down to .18 per GB in cost. This enables us to lower prices for our customers are still make more money.

Since we are Dell partners, we simply chose Dell as the vendor. The ease of working with them is what is most important and their technical support has been first class.

The PowerVault 3220i is a good unit, but my biggest concern with it is that the unit will only support up to 1TB sized hard drives. This makes the cost of unit higher when using it as added storage. The MD3260 is a great unit, inexpensive, hold tons of drives, its expandable, and the cost is low.

If I had advice to give, it would be based on all the Dell Storage devices. Make sure you evaluate each device thoroughly and understand exactly what you need it to do. Make sure you talk with a product specialist and let them understand your motives. Choosing the correct device for the job is most important.

A highly reliable RAID system with durable high speed hard disk drives. The OS can be flashed on to a SD card thereby giving you more space for storage. I've found that the enterprise support from Dell Customer Care is excellent.

No LCD panel for viewing status on-board.

My Company has huge data requirements for which I bought this Dell Powervault NX 3200 with 10 TB storage. It was selected due to very impressive IOPS performance and has proven itself. In my company there are more than 100 users connecting to this server simultaneously and still the I/O operations are very smooth. Dell-IDRAC provides a nice way to manage and monitor its performance.

Our customers use the product for its advanced storage capacity.

It is an inexpensive storage solution.

The product could support an NVMe hard disk. The customers have to use limited storage drive types such as SSDs (Solid State Drives), HDDs (Hard Disk Drives), and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives.

We have been using Dell PowerVault for four years.

I rate the product's stability an eight out of ten.

The product is unscalable. Beyond a certain limit, you can't expand the performance.

The initial setup process is easy from the customers' perspective. It is simple and minimizes the cost as well.

The product is inexpensive. 

I rate Dell PowerVault a six out of ten.

On-premises

My primary uses are virtualization and general-purpose workloads.

The features I've found most valuable are replication and tiered storage.

PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud.

I have been using this solution for a year.

PowerVault is stable.

Dell's technical support is excellent.

The initial setup was easy and simple.

PowerVault is an entry-level model for customers needing their first storage solution. I would rate this solution as ten out of ten. 

On-premises

We use the solution for internal and external ERP.

I like the tool's CloudIQ feature.

If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites.

We have been using the solution since the early 2000s.

The solution is stable. I rate it a ten on ten.

The solution is scalable. I rate it a ten on ten.

We haven't used technical support for assistance. It has been running smoothly for several years now.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The solution is more cost-effective than the competitors. It’s an affordable option for small businesses.

Overall, I rate Dell PowerVault a ten on ten.

On-premises