We performed a comparison between MinIO and NetApp StorageGRID 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."For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"The tool’s integration is very easy. This feature has helped us reduce development time. The solution also has many out-of-the-box features like versioning support and management of roles and permissions. The product also supports clustered deployment."
"Right now, we have an older StorageGRID. I like that we can grow it."
"Duplication, interface and the manageability is good and simple."
"It has awesome scalability. We consume it with storage appliance nodes, then we just plug and play as we need more."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is tiering."
"The backup features are valuable. I've heard from our backup and data protection people that our clients are very satisfied with the performance in junction with the backup, which they archive on this type of object storage."
"The speed of the disks removed the bottleneck from our storage."
"The ability to get to the StorageGRID from anywhere on my network. The solution is remote. You don't have to be at a physical location."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"The scalability is one of the limitations we have found. We are looking for another solution but they must provide the same characteristics, such as an affordable price and continuity."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"The price is something that NetApp could improve, as with most companies. NetApp is known for not being the cheapest storage option, which is also valid for StorageGRID. There are other storage options on the market which we are aware of and have done proofs of concept for, but you cannot really compare the list prices because, as a big user of NetApp storages, we have totally different prices than some list prices. Still, the price information we got for other options are almost always less expensive than StorageGRID."
"The integration with more apps has room for improvement."
"One key improvement I'd like to see in StorageGRID is enhanced visibility for management purposes."
"Improvements need to be made in the support area."
"Data retrieval speed could be better."
"It has its quirks here and there, but it is an older NetApp system."
"There was a small amount of confusion when working with StorageGRID and Active Directory for access. We had to do things three to four times resulting in our engineer troubleshooting a couple of things. The location of the menu, along with what is inside the menu: configurations, settings, etc., is not straightforward to users. Most users are Windows-based. So, when make logical changes to the menu which are not similar to Windows, users and administrators get confused."
"I just recommend improving the marketing campaigns in Pakistan."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while NetApp StorageGRID is ranked 7th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while NetApp StorageGRID is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp StorageGRID writes "Scalable object storage with robust data durability with efficient geo-distribution and comprehensive lifecycle management ensuring managing of large volumes of unstructured data". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack, whereas NetApp StorageGRID is most compared with Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Scality RING, Cloudian HyperStore and Hitachi Content Platform. See our MinIO vs. NetApp StorageGRID report.
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