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 scalability is good."
"What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"It's definitely good for unstructured data. In earlier days, we had Centera, so for the DR it's really good. It has load balancing facility, and we're using it with the Kemp Load Balancer."
"The performance is good."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"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."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"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."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"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 troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"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."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"The developer support could be better."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"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 product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 13 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 16 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Has load balancing facility, and good for unstructured data and DR". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes "The user and command line interface are helpful ". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Hitachi Content Platform, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp StorageGRID, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack. See our Dell ECS vs. MinIO report.
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