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."It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"The performance is good."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability is good."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"The product does save time for our company."
"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 most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"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."
"Its security can be improved."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"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."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"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 monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 24 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. 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 MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack. See our Dell ECS vs. MinIO report.
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