MinIO vs Pure Storage FlashBlade comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

MinIO
Ranking in File and Object Storage
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Ranking in File and Object Storage
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of MinIO is 25.8%, up from 24.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 7.1%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File and Object Storage
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
All-Flash Storage
2.1%
 

Featured Reviews

Ashis Parajuli - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2023
A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time
My company uses MinIO for storage purposes and as a replacement for Amazon S3 MinIO has helped speed up the processes carried out by my company's developers. The most valuable feature of the solution is that it offers features similar to the ones offered by Amazon S3. In my company, we needed a…
Dale Sides - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 8, 2023
A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads
We use the solution for S3 storage and Kubernetes backup FlashBlade is so much easier to use than the previous solution; it reduced the time to market to serve our customers. I like the way it streams data performance for S3 workloads and object workloads. FlashBlade could improve its…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."
"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"The tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
 

Cons

"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
"With problems, visibility is hard because everything is in containers. Difficult to get to the logs in order to figure out what the problem was."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"The developer support could be better."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"The technical support needs to improve. When we open a case, it is auto assigned to a support tech person. Nine out of ten times, we get an email right back saying that person is off until tomorrow. I cannot handle that. They just did this over the weekend to us, too. I had to call our rep and have them do something about it."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company hasn't tried the version of the solution where we need to pay to use it."
"MinIO is a free open-source solution."
"This solution is open source so it is free."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
"This is an open-source solution but I am using the licensed version."
"Our licensing is renewed annually."
"The price of this solution could be made more affordable."
"Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO."
"Licensing fees are paid yearly."
"I rate the tool's pricing a seven to eight out of ten."
"We used a reseller for the purchase."
"Support is a separate line item. Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today, six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc."
"In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
37%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Red Hat Ceph Storage compare with MiniO?
Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, ea...
What do you like most about MinIO?
I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust.
What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensure...
What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?
Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, r...
 

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