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Dell PowerScale

byDell Technologies
in
4.8
Market Presence: File and Object Storage Platforms, Enterprise Storage Platforms

Overview

Product Information on Dell PowerScale

Updated 14th February 2023

What is Dell PowerScale?

Dell PowerScale, a flexible and secure scale-out NAS solution, is designed to be reliable at any scale. Regardless of the kind of data, where it lives, or how big it gets, your data lake always stays simple to manage, simple to grow, simple to protect, and simple enough to handle the most demanding workloads of today and tomorrow.

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Overall experience with Dell PowerScale

IT Associate
Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Government
FAVORABLE

“Stable performance and feature-rich experience after initial hardware setbacks”

4.0
May 20, 2026
We initially had some hardware issues due to the PowerScales we purchased being unplugged for about a year. Support was able to get us back up and running, and now they are being used heavily for production work. We plan on purchasing more due to overall reliability and the feature set.
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CRITICAL

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th October 2023

Dell Technologies helps organizations build their digital futures and individuals transform how they work, live, and play. It provides customers with a broad solutions portfolio for the data era, including traditional infrastructure and extending to multicloud environments. Dell's integrated solutions help customers modernize their IT infrastructure, manage and operate in a multicloud world, address workforce transformation, and provide critical solutions that keep people and organizations connected. It helps customers accelerate their digital transformations to improve and strengthen business and workforce productivity. With an extensive portfolio and a commitment to innovation, Dell offers secure, integrated solutions that extend from the edge to the core to the cloud, and offers software-defined and cloud native infrastructure solutions.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1984
Head office location
Round Rock, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://www.dell.com/

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Dell PowerScale Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 15 ratings and reviews for Enterprise Storage Platforms market. View all 324 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.8

(15 Ratings)

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4 Star
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.7

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • IT Associate
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    Stable performance and feature-rich experience after initial hardware setbacks

    4.0
    May 20, 2026
    We initially had some hardware issues due to the PowerScales we purchased being unplugged for about a year. Support was able to get us back up and running, and now they are being used heavily for production work. We plan on purchasing more due to overall reliability and the feature set.
  • IT Associate
    10B+ USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Consistent reliability and flexibility with seamless cluster scaling

    5.0
    May 20, 2026
    Very reliable, scalable and available NAS Platform. I have added and removed nodes from this cluster and never experienced any issues. I like the fact that this is one of the new products that lets the administrator run Linux commands (great power comes with great responsibility). This feature has helped us on several occasions related to file / folder permissions being messed up.
  • Director of IT
    10B+ USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    PowerStore is an awesome product.!!!

    5.0
    May 19, 2026
    Dell PowerScale is very easy to manage from an overall scale perspective.
  • Engineering Manager
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    PowerStore is good product.

    5.0
    May 20, 2026
    Cross protocol is good for our services. We can do NFS and Object Storage same files.
  • IT Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Reliable storage security, though backup immutability lasts long term

    5.0
    May 19, 2026
    Data Availability and Data Protection are key features when choosing a Storage vendor.
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User Sentiment About Dell PowerScale
Reviewer Insights for: Dell PowerScale

Dell PowerScale Likes & Dislikes

Like

Resiliency, SyncIQ, overall speed capabilities (we have 100Gb)

Like

Features, reliability and a variety of node types to choose from

Like

The ability to scale and to set protection policies

Dislike

The reliance on batteries for system stability. Would be nice to have out of band management for the H700s via a single console port instead of needing to go into each node, for setup and resolving higher impact issues out of band.

Dislike

None

Dislike

hardware refresh.