We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and StarWind Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is reliability."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."
"The most crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"It is very easy to use and very cost effective."
"The integration is excellent."
"Having instant failover redundancy helps me sleep easier at night."
"They call us when monitoring shows a possible issue and are very flexible in working with our schedule to troubleshoot when it is convenient for us."
"We saw an ROI. We have saved both time and money by using it."
"Another good feature is that you can pause the appliance if you want to move it from one location to another and then once it's moved you can resume it, this way you can physically move the whole cluster or storage without any downtime. Its really easy to use, if you have a good foundation in storage and clustering then you will need less then one hour to figure out how to operate it."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it an attractive option, especially for customers who may not be highly tech-savvy."
"The management interface is the most valuable feature for us."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It takes a lot of time to study the product and it's a little complicated in general."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"The solution's pricing is a bit high so there is room for improvement."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"There could be some extra features added."
"The dashboard features are not in the free version."
"StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage."
"With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong."
"It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage."
"They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end."
"Other solutions, such as StorMagic, offer more flexibility in terms of handling caching and moving data between additional nodes."
"They could improve by providing integration with HP."
"An improvement would be if they reached out to education customers with other available products."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while StarWind Storage Appliance is ranked 10th in NAS with 9 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while StarWind Storage Appliance is rated 9.2. 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 StarWind Storage Appliance writes "Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas StarWind Storage Appliance is most compared with FreeNAS, StoneFly VSO NAS, StorMagic SvSAN and VMware vSAN. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. StarWind Storage Appliance report.
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