# Dell Flash Storage Reviews **Vendor:** Dell Technologies **Category:** [Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/hybrid-cloud-storage-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Dell Flash Storage provide a range of independent Cloud options ## Dell Flash Storage Reviews ### 1. Dell EMC Storage are easy to deploy & use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suresh U. | Senior System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Dell EMC Storage are plug and play, migration also very easy, maintanance is excellant, Cloud IQ and reporting work very well, Priceing also very resonable compared to other OEM, Support On time. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Nothing much to dislike, all good things. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's avoids our performance bettlenecks and saves lots of time on investigations. ### 2. Excellent Storage Architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunmy P. | P, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Love it for low latency and support higher IOPS. Also consumes very less power and storage density is very high. Value of money and saves lot of time. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Price is on the higher side but once we get used to it will be beneficial. **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Use for sometime and u will love it,. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supports my large files and optimized performance. I can keep more and more files in my storage. Earlier i used to use multiple drives but one is enough. ### 3. Fast and Strong solution for Data Centers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ilhan K. | System Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Disk response times have dropped considerably. Efficiency in our mail servers has increased tremendously. We achieved a very strong productivity increase. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** We can not say anything about dislike. But configuration might be easier. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We hadn't any problems. ### 4. Stable , good and efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdullah H. | Software Test Automation Engineer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Speed and reliability are the major benefits **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Sometimes it become easy to catch viruses and also when try to edit a video on it you may face some issues **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Keep developing **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It safes a large memory on a small portable device ### 5. Storage Engineer, Implementation Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashraf W. | Solutions Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Easy to setup Complete solution High efficiency Good data reduction High available Secure Compatible with latest technologies **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Failed drive rebuild time Integration with SEIM solutions **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** High IOPS less power consumption, less foot print More intelligent ### 6. One of the best support providers in SAN environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Sell EMC storage's are robust and enterprise class devices. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** The procurement cost is slightly on a higher range. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The response time we achieve by using flash storage is too good as the latency to process any data is very less, this gives us infra for to run our business transactions smoothly. ### 7. Fast, Efficient, and Good Price. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben S. | Senior Systems Engineer / Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** It is truly amazing the speed difference between spinning disks and flash. Dell's support is always on point. Dell always answers the phone and are always willing to help. Dell has much less finger pointing than other companies. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** They do need to revamp their paid training. Dell did cover the steps to create everything in the storage as a sandbox; however, there was never any information on vSphere integration. Of course, in a real enviroment this is where you will spend most of your time. **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Dell is a market leader in the space. You cannot go wrong with their storage, technology, integration, and support. Could not be happier with the purchase. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Boot times for servers and desktops are significantly faster. Failed drives are essentially a problem of the past. With Dell's flash the footprint is drastically decreased by the hardware and the deduplication. Power consumption is much lower. ### 8. Very reliable storage with tremendous speed **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush L. | Data Engineer 2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Speed to transfer data to and from with dell flash storage is remarkably best **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Size is little bit concerned without case **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Must try for backup purpose along with cloud connectivity feature **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Store static data and also backup data in storage and also Transfer data time to time ### 9. Great Performance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Storage performance is top-notch & the application response time is minimal **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Cost is on slightly higher side which is primarily because of high performance **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** For someone who doesn't want to compromise on performance then it is the right product. The price might be slightly on a higher side **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application response time, read-write capabilities & overall performance have improved ### 10. Emc flash **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Resliency and scaleout with great performance **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Active active storage use case is not stable **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Great system for vmware infrastructure **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance and storage shortage ### 11. Long time customer of EMC Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Stability, availability, performance, excellent support, data integrity **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** The cost to renew support contract is high **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** This is the best flash storage you can get. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use EMC Flash Storage for ERP, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. It helps us to keep high availability of those critical applications to the business ### 12. Love my Compellent Array **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rik T. | Cyber Security Manager, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** The arrays were easy to set up and have been very easy to maintain. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** I haven't found anything to dislike about them. **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** They have been rock solid for performance and support has been great when it was needed. I would highly recommend this product in your environment. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The all flash array is providing OS and database storage to quick operations in Tier 1 systems. These are much faster than the traditional spinning disk SANS we were using previously. Backups of these systems are markedly quicker than before as well. ### 13. Dell EMC Flash Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Scalable, easily to integrate in any work environment , compatible with all other brands and easily to setup without technical engineers or resources from Dell. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** HPE also has similar storage products that are competitive in price and durability . Also they have powerful flash storage options that can throw Dell out of the water . **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** centric data center platform while simplifying, automating and consolidating workloads, freeing up resources and times for allocation elsewhere in the business. ### 14. Huge Dell EMC fan **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** We've been a Dell shop for many years and the Flash storage is no exception. We love Dell and look forward to using the device. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** None so far. We've only used it a short time. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a situation where our current infrastructure is out of warranty so we'll be upgrading to using all flash storage this round ### 15. Dell Switches, best post-sales service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** The most important thing in any product purchase is the tech support services. This service is essential to continue trusting with that brand, and the Dell after sale service is very good. Also dell doesn’t license features on their switches, so all the switching and routing features out-of-the box. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Dell N series have some problems at basic functions (L3 routing, stacking,..) **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** In Hospital clinic of Barcelona, only work with Dell, so I don't have the oportunity to work with other brands, so I can't say that problems will be solved with other brand. ### 16. Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** Compellent graphical user interface can be slow. CLI is very hard to use. **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Stability is very important, and the product delivers it. It's very efficient and support is always there in case is needed. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big storage can be used in multi-tenancy environments. ### 17. Implementation painfull easy use after that **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** Speed! EMC has been dependable in the past. There is a certain "bar" that one expects with EMC and they fill that expectation most of the time. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** The configuration spreadsheet was confusing and I could not paste certain items in the spreadsheet so I had to type them. Seems like they took their spinning media platform and installed flash drives and called it a new product line. **Recommendations to others considering Dell Flash Storage:** Spend a LOT of time in the planning mode. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to plan on performance rather just storage amount and redundancy topologies/striping. ### 18. Tier to Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Dell Flash Storage?** It can be easily tierd to cloud and analytics can be performed very easily. **What do you dislike about Dell Flash Storage?** It’s not an “evolution” as they market. Yes it’s better though. **What problems is Dell Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of deployment. ## Dell Flash Storage Discussions - [What does Dell Emc Flash Storage do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-dell-emc-flash-storage-do) - [What is the use of Dell Emc Flash Storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-dell-emc-flash-storage) - [What is Dell EMC storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-dell-emc-storage) - [View Dell Flash Storage pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/dell-flash-storage/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-22+10%3A19%3A58+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e5e0efcd-f47b-4d04-8ffb-a6632053a8a3&secure%5Btoken%5D=65d8ca852979aab8eb42949c8dd3b1c9a267069568c53988b7e95a51545d8310&format=llm_user) ## Dell Flash Storage Features **Performance** - High Availability - Low Latency - High Scalability - Fast Application Deployment **Functionality** - Simplified Management - Monitoring Tool - Cost-Saving **Security** - Business Continuity - Data Security ## Top Dell Flash Storage Alternatives - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (562 reviews) - [AWS Storage Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-storage-gateway/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (58 reviews) - [HPE StoreOnce](https://www.g2.com/products/hpe-storeonce/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (6 reviews)