We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Scality RING 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."This product is very competitive."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"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."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The setup is very complex."
"Its security can be improved."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"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."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 24 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 13th in File and Object Storage with 4 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. 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 Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas Scality RING is most compared with MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo, Cloudian HyperStore and NetApp StorageGRID. See our Dell ECS vs. Scality RING report.
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