IBM FlashSystem vs NEC D3 series comparison

"The compression and deduplication features are the most valuable."

"It's very stable as a single system or you can have it as a cluster for redundancy."

"The performance of the solution is noteworthy."

"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."

"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."

"After we migrated them under the IBM Flash Array, the overall IOPS rate has increased by 30% and its latency is lower."

"User friendly management interface."

"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."

"Technical support from NEC is very good."

"The performance is better than with our previous version."

"The GUI needs some improvement. An additional function that could be helpful is reducing the time it takes to delete volumes, especially if they are compressed or deduplicated."

"The GUI needs some improvement."

"The cluster should be improved because non-disruptive failover was supported only on a few operating systems."

"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."

"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."

"We faced power supply failure, multiple SAS drives failure, and at the end both controllers were dead."

"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."

"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."

"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."

"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."

"It pays to go back and get the best price you can from your supplier. The first offer is not always at the best discount."

"The tool is cost-efficient."

"The pricing may be a bit higher than other brands. If you compare the IBM FlashSystems in midrange with Dell EMC in midrange, IBM costs a bit more, but I prefer IBM because it has more specs that I can benefit from."

"If five is a good price and one is a high price, I would rate the price a two or three out of five."

"The price is a little bit high so is rated a six out of ten."

"You purchase it as a bundle and the price is comparable."

"I price of IBM FlashSystem is reasonable and competitive."

"Among IBM, Dell EMC, and Pure Storage, IBM is the cheapest. The price is also based on our location, the size of our entity, and our regular annual purchases from them. We are a very big IBM customer, so we normally get very high discounts. We are not a big customer of Pure Storage. We don't buy that much from Pure Storage per year. Everything is included in the price. There is no extra license for different functions."