We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Quantum ActiveScale 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 performance is good."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability is good."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"The disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"The setup is very complex."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
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Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 20th in File and Object Storage. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. 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 Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID and MinIO, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Qumulo and MinIO. See our Dell ECS vs. Quantum ActiveScale report.
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