We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and INFINIDAT InfiniBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The installation is nice and easy."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's very easy to use and configure. It used to be more difficult, but now it's almost flawless."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"I know they have a flashcopy manager, but it is extra software, an additional license, and some customers don't like to add addition costs to their infrastructure. If IBM could create, or include snapshot management within the GUI, that would really be helpful."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"The generic functionality of IBM FlashSystem, IBM always dismisses using file share or sharing protocols inside their storage hardware, and they only focus on the block-level storage."
"The data reduction pool feature sucks and is not recommended for use with heavy workloads."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN.
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