We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The technology is very good, it performs well."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"The scalability is good."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"The product does save time for our company."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"The setup is very complex."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"The tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack. See our Dell ECS vs. MinIO report.
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