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Elastifile vs StarWind Storage Appliance comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Elastifile
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
File System Software (12th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (28th), Public Cloud Storage Services (28th)
StarWind Storage Appliance
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
NAS (15th), All-Flash Storage (31st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Elastifile and StarWind Storage Appliance aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Elastifile is designed for File System Software and holds a mindshare of 3.2%, up 0.5% compared to last year.
StarWind Storage Appliance, on the other hand, focuses on NAS, holds 1.3% mindshare, up 0.8% since last year.
File System Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastifile3.2%
Nasuni18.2%
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform15.7%
Other62.900000000000006%
File System Software
NAS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
StarWind Storage Appliance1.3%
Dell PowerScale (Isilon)15.5%
NetApp FAS Series10.8%
Other72.4%
NAS
 

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Kishore CA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Assistant at Bharat Electronics Limited
Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes.
The only drawback is that it takes a bit of time during initial synchronization, especially after restarting the environment. This is a potential area of improvement. There's a synchronization time, but it takes time. Initially, when we start the first environment deployment, it starts synchronizing between the storage. So, it is taking time. One thing is that even when you restart. Let's assume that the synchronization is completed and the storage is synchronized. Both storages are fully synchronized, and it is in sync mode. Now, if we want to restart both nodes, there is a case for maintenance purposes. You took both nodes for maintenance, and we rebooted it. Then, it should not synchronize again. It should be a checksum. And if there is a checksum match, there should be no synchronization again. So, one thing that should be taken care of. Another thing is that I used freeware- the community version, free license, which we deployed using PowerShare. In that case, it was very difficult to bring back another node when one node was faulty. Let's assume that both the nodes are working fine. And we found one node faulty. And we destroyed all the volumes in that and tried to bring it back. So that was a difficult factor. The final solution is that we were not able to bring back the failed node. So, we reconstructed a new data source for that. That is another drawback. In future releases, I would like to see the integration with VMware or some other things as a plugin model for VMware.
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Transportation Company
9%
 

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Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
 

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What needs improvement with StarWind Storage Appliance?
StarWind Storage Appliance's demo version should be similar to the paid one.
What advice do you have for others considering StarWind Storage Appliance?
The tool is mostly for medium companies and requires no maintenance. It has a good price and performance. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
 

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