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What is PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Drive demanding workloads including VDI, AI/machine learning and private cloud with workhorse servers that deliver the optimum balance of storage, I/O, application acceleration and configuration flexibility. Highly flexible configurations with up to 16 x 2.5-or 8 x 3.5- drives, 8 PCIe slots, 24 DIMMS (including 12 NVDIMM-Ns) 50% more accelerator card support with up to 3 x 300W or 6 x 150W cards Industry-leading energy efficiency with correct air flow delivered to each PCIe slot via multi-vector cooling Internal storage subsystem optimized for M.2 boot

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Drive demanding workloads including VDI, AI/machine learning and private cloud with workhorse servers that deliver the optimum balance of storage, I/O, application acceleration and configuration flexibility. Highly flexible configurations with up to 16 x 2.5-or 8 x 3.5- drives, 8 PCIe slots, 24 DIMMS (including 12 NVDIMM-Ns) 50% more accelerator card support with up to 3 x 300W or 6 x 150W cards Industry-leading energy efficiency with correct air flow delivered to each PCIe slot via multi-vector cooling Internal storage subsystem optimized for M.2 boot


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Year Founded
1984
HQ Location
Round Rock, TX
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@Dell
818,517 Twitter followers
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www.linkedin.com
136,730 employees on LinkedIn®
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NYSE: DELL
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1-800-WWW-DELL
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Dell has played a critical role in enabling more affordable and accessible technology around the world. As an end-to-end computing solutions company, Dell continues to transform computing and provide high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.

Recent PowerEdge Rack Servers Reviews

Marco Antonio P.
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Marco Antonio P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Dell power edge R940 powerfull rack server"
the capacity on disks, memory and processadors, easy to management and easy to configure on way idrac port interface, power edge R940 is a very goo...
Rusman H.
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Rusman H.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great Reliability and Performance"
Best reliability and performance, never really had experience of any downtime
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Dell poweredge review"
Accessibility on server even if work from home. If unable to login via domain it can still be accessed via iDrac.

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Rusman H.
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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Best reliability and performance, never really had experience of any downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Depend on your environment, however sometimes kind be a bit of noisy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dell is the easiest and user friendly website when I would like to check specific hardware and performance in the market. I can easily access from the website versus the other vendors are not easy to find out and not user friendly when trying to quick browse and sizing to find out solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Accessibility on server even if work from home. If unable to login via domain it can still be accessed via iDrac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Hardware is a little bit not stable. Keeps having disk error alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly ease of access and dell direct support for replacement on defective parts via esrs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco Antonio P.
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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

the capacity on disks, memory and processadors, easy to management and easy to configure on way idrac port interface, power edge R940 is a very good product to highg capacity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

noize and energy comsuption is no the best on the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dell Power Edge R940 is a big server and grant compute capacity to processing big capacities off process and information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dell support is unmatched. Whenever the hardware parts go out, replacements are received on-site in a matter of hours. Quality hardware, running fast and reliably. ILO with an option to manage everything remotely, with the ability to monitor different hardware sensors is just something that is a must on for any serious data center operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

It could be an isolated issue with my server models but a few times I experienced memory correction problems with some older R710 servers. It could have been bad memory modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

These were our primary hypervisors for powering our entire enterprise. The fact that we can be assured they would be running reliably and that replacement parts would be delivered fast is a must-have solution for any mission high availability operaton. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranav S.
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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Easy to rack and mount, durable with acceptable component failure rates, firmware management is easy and can be automated through Dell OME through various templates. Also, Dell technical support is robust,and part replacements are quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Sometimes it shows false alarms when running older firmware and BIOS versions. List prices at times are on the higher side, so you should negotiate a bit more for discounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been running Dell Poweredge series G6/G7/G8/G9 servers as standard hardware across our datacenters, running VMware ESXi over them as a virtualization platform. They all can be centrally managed and updated through a single Dell OME management tool. Also, with Dell support assist, failure alerts and logs are proactively sent over to the technical support team for analysis and action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhamad I.
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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

For more 5 years, my company always using dell PowerEdge as a mandatory server, great performance, awesome after sales. Almost server in my environment using dell as main solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Products life circle to short, I believe we can still using old server without any issue. I have more than 5 server still running well ini my environment without any issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PowerEdge Rack Servers:

Maybe dell pricing is higher then others, but you get great performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Replacing Old servers with dell server solution. The only one issue is coming from pricing LOL, but I believe it's coming with great performance and stable in production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Troy S.
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Director of Education Technology
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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

I best associate Dell servers with reliability. I have used several brands over my career and Dell always ranks at the top with good service and reliable performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Server cost is always expensive. While technology has changed a lot over the years so has the cost of servers. They always go up, but they are the price of doing business. I most dislike the cost of renewing support, normally I can get a new server for similar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PowerEdge Rack Servers:

Carefully consider your environment and its needs. Different systems like Hyper-V and VMware have different requrements. Make sure you talk to your rep about getting compatible hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dell servers run well and do the job they we intended for. Even in the secondary market some Dell servers are still highly sought after for testing and lab environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AbdulManan S.
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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Good Tech Support also follows up on the open case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

noting, I don't have any issue. Tech Support are good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Troubleshooting the problem, Parts Replacement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Pro - It just runs 24-7 with no worries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Con - Will need to upgrade software soon and am not looking forward to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a small law firm and needed a reliable server to take care of our clients' data. The R940 fit the bill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Low cost, reliability, ease of deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerEdge Rack Servers?

Only in a few instances, cost when loading it up with memory is a con, but I suspect that is the case with every manufacturer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerEdge Rack Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are used mainly as standalone servers and VMWare hosts. No major problems outside of the occasional hard drive failure. They just work, and I don't have to worry about them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.