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# Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage Reviews & Product Details

Software-defined object storage designed for both traditional and next-generation workloads with unmatched scalability, flexibility and resiliency.

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## User Insights

Average based on 5 real user reviews.

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Verified User in Manufacturing

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2025

"Dell ECS is okay for on premise object storage requirements"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

Dell ECS is okay object storage for in premises solutions and requirements for any organisation requiring to have data compliant within the organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

It's not user friendly as the commands and GUI options are complex to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides object storage at lesser cost for on premises solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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8/19/2025
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Verified User

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

11/5/2021

"Set it and forget it archival storage"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

ECS is reliable "cheap and deep" storage for your archive tier. For example, use it to tier off of your more expensive, heavier used, faster performing primary NAS storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

This is not necessarily a dislike, but ECS uses the S3 protocol for access, and a lot of traditional SAN/NAS admins might not be familiar with that, so there is a slight learning curve required. I say "slight" because you don't have to learn S3 in depth by any means, but it does require some basic familiarity with S3 to set up the relationship between ECS and the arrays you're tiering from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage:

Work with your Dell account team. They are second to none and absolutely will get you where you need to be. Use best practices, of course -- don't be a maverick.

On your Isilon, turn on access time tracking so ECS knows what to tier by access time, if that's a policy you intend to use.

This does require some good network folks to help implement (it's not crazy complicated, though). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have multiple petabytes of unstructured data on our Isilon NAS clusters, which is expensive compared to ECS. ECS is designed to be a cheaper, larger solution to offload lesser-used data. So, we have policies in place on our Isilons to move data that hasn't been accessed after a certain amount of time (sometimes 3 years, sometimes 90 days -- your policies can vary) to ECS. A pointer/shortcut for the offloaded file to ECS is then placed on the Isilon. To an end-user, the pointer looks exactly like the real thing, but the actual data lives on ECS instead of Isilon. You can manually recall files back to Isilon if you need to for some reason, or when a user accesses a shortcutted file it gets recalled to Isilon.

So, to summarize, we get space savings on our primary NAS storage, and therefore we save money by not having to buy as much primary storage as we would have to without ECS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Antonio S.

Analista de segurança

3/20/2020

"High-tech data storage platform."

5/5

What do you like best about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

What I like most about Dell EMC ECS is its high scalability and manageability. It gives us the feeling of having no limits because it gives us the possibility to create files in exabytes and comply with strict supoer standards that in the past we could not. What I like a lot is also because it provides data protection without points of failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

The values ​​are not cheap to buy. It could have a lower cost. But even so, the investment is viable and rewarding for quality and safety. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage:

Buy with a guarantee and support of at least three years to be safe and avoid problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being in the cloud, the solution combines the cost advantages of infrastructure with the reliability and security we need. We easily manage storage distributed globally in a single solution. ECS is excellent and has high flexibility of architecture defined by software layers that promote unlimited scalability. This gives us a feeling of security and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User

10/30/2019

"I gave it for as it tends to be slow when using other brands of it equipment. "

2/5

What do you like best about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

The data protection is best on it. It gives regular updates as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

The storage size especially if you are not a corporate individual Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage:

I think it his headed in the right direction as it improves on a daily basis. I would recommend it to low scales corporations and home run business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps a lot with data recovery and data protection. It has regular updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

10/11/2019

"The best in Dell"

5/5

What do you like best about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

It's smooth runs completey secured as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage?

It has an issue as it causes lags and delays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage:

Take this if you want elastic storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

It ensures that alot of filing and admin processes are completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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