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“Strong Throughput For Large Workloads Despite Basic Insights And High Entry Cost”
“Challenges Faced in PowerScale's Peripheral Product Support”
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Linear scaling: : Add A300 nodes for 80% faster thoughput, hits 250GB/s aggregate SmartDedupe SmartPools tier hot/cold data across HDD/archive; 3.5:1 avg reduction
Sales & Sales Tech very helpful - planning, quotes, etc. PowserScale works well We've had problems w/satellite products like ECS and accompanying software and support for such
OneFS OS gives true scale-out to 100PB, SmartPools auto-tier hot SSD/Cold HDD data at 3.8:1 dedupe ratio across zones Multirpotocal lock ensures atomicity for AI training datasets up to 16TB/file. InsightIQ analystics SynclQ async replication hits RPO< 15 min across DR sites
High upfront cost hurts small setups, Not worth it under few TB scale Analytics reports feel basic. Lacks deep insights for complex queries Initial tuning takes effort. Needs workload testing upfront Node based licensing jumps 25% per TB added beyond 10PM; opex spikes. InsightIQ anayytics lag 24h on cluster events; no real-time ML anomaly detection InfiniBand 200Gbps tuning needs manual FEC tweaks for <1% packet loss at scale
Slow performance for us (HPC)
Node licensing costs 28% more per TB beyond 20 PB threshold vs block comptitors. Small file performance needs All-Flash tuning vs QLC archive nodes. CloudPools hybrid tiering shows 45-60s latency spikes during s# gateway sync bursts
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- Graduate Engineer Traniee50M-1B USDConstructionReview Source
Strong Throughput For Large Workloads Despite Basic Insights And High Entry Cost
Powerscale rushes is a scale-out NAS for unstructured data, AI/ML, and HPC workloads, scaling to 100PB+ with OneFS OS It crushes exabyte-scale file serving with 99.999% uptime; our 20 PB cluster handles 10 M IOPS NFS/SMB/HDFS without hiccups - Graduate Engineer Traniee50M-1B USDConstructionReview Source
Linear Scaling And Sub-Millisecond Latency Highlighted With Large PowerScale Cluster
PowerScale runs smooth on our 15PB file cluster-99.999% uptime, scales linearly by adding nodes, delivers 8M IOPS mixed NFS with sub-1ms latency. Perfect for heavy file serving. Overall performance was good and you should also prefer and try this with yours systems too - Application Engineer50M-1B USDConstructionReview Source
Seamless Integration and Scalability Noted, With Challenges in Cost and Usability
Our overall experience with the vendor has been very good. The product has performed consistenly in real operational conditions and integrates well with our exitsting processes. Technical support understands the product in depth and provides practical solutions rather than generic responses. While a few process- related delays were observed, the vendor remains reliable and responsive, making them a dependable long term partner - IT Associate1B-10B USDManufacturingReview Source
PowerScale is a well-rounded unstructured data storage solution that's optimized for efficiency and cost savings
The Dell account team is phenomenal to work with and their products extremely reliable. - IT Associate50M-1B USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Long-Term Experience Shows Reliable PowerScale Storage With Strong Deduplication Features
I have worked with this vendor for over 14 years and have never had an issue. When we first purchased the PowerScale storage I knew nothing about them. The vendor took the time to teach me everything I needed to know to properly support the product.