We performed a comparison between FreeNAS and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its stability is the most valuable. It is reliable, and we don't have to worry too much about it."
"What I like about it is that I can work on it from any computer or any device. The initial setup is very simple. The setup wizard is really helpful."
"It has the best storage capacity."
"FreeNAS is much simpler and easier to use than other solutions, but we don't have the complete range of features that come with the full version."
"The solution has been very stable so far."
"The ease of use of the 'jail', the management of backups, and copies to easily create test and pre-production scenarios have speeded up the development and distribution of business apps."
"It integrates well into either Windows or Linux environments."
"The Remote Copy Group is amazing for the replication stuff."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"Proactive support. Before we notice that there's a problem in the storage, or any part, any hard disk, they already notify us, and within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an enterprise storage that is mainly deployed in enterprise scenarios like banking and insurance."
"The one thing that I find difficult to do which is very time-consuming is that I like to have a backup of the important files."
"The support for S3 needs to be improved."
"They should include clustering for the solution."
"The latest version of the dashboard doesn't work as good as the previous version."
"FreeNAS should be better prepared for clustering."
"They can improve the integration with PSA systems. This functionality could be better."
"If you find the documentation, it is always incomplete and fragmented."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has limited flexibility in building replication solutions. There are limitations to the number of IOPS the system can do. It's not bad as it is doing its job. However, for the application, if you need a toolbox, you can build everything concerning periodic replication modes of synchronous or asynchronous three-site, four-site, with supported cascading which requires you to buy an IBM product. It also takes a few hours to one day to upgrade the system and sometimes; it takes more time because, in some HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage, you have an eight-node system. If you do an upgrade, you do it node by node and every node might take more than an hour."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
FreeNAS is ranked 9th in NAS with 9 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews. FreeNAS is rated 8.4, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FreeNAS writes "Open-source with great disk management and task synchronization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". FreeNAS is most compared with StarWind Storage Appliance, HPE StoreEasy, Qumulo and Dell PowerScale (Isilon), whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerStore. See our FreeNAS vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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