We performed a comparison between MinIO and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."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 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."
"The product does save time for our company."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"It performs efficiently compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"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."
"With problems, visibility is hard because everything is in containers. Difficult to get to the logs in order to figure out what the problem was."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see better integration."
"I have not seen ROI."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, Pure Storage FlashArray, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our MinIO vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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