We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable feature is replication."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"The management software is very good."
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The price could be better."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF, Tintri VMstore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera.
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