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StarWind Storage Appliance vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.0
StarWind Storage Appliance users saw reduced costs, improved performance, and increased efficiency, with easy scalability and high reliability.
Sentiment score
7.6
StorMagic SvSAN reduces costs by 60%, offering ROI of 40% over five years, saving $20-$30,000 annually.
StorMagic SvSAN helped us save around sixty percent on previous costs.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
With StorMagic, we calculate the return on investment to be about two years, compared to other solutions we could have adopted.
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
StorMagic SvSAN has delivered great benefits in overall cost-efficiency since it is an integral part of our complete solutions for clients.
Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
9.0
StarWind Storage Appliance customer service is praised for 24x7 troubleshooting, professionalism, high technical support ratings, and helpful videos.
Sentiment score
8.6
StorMagic SvSAN provides excellent 24/7 customer support with swift, knowledgeable assistance, ensuring high user satisfaction and smooth resolutions.
I rate them at a nine out of ten due to their prompt responses and effective solutions to our issues.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
They respond rapidly to support requests and provide assistance beyond their scope.
Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
StorMagic offers exemplary customer and technical support, ensuring excellent service and timely assistance that enhances my clients' experience.
Senior Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
StarWind Storage Appliance is scalable, adaptable, hardware-independent, supports unlimited storage, and is effective in standalone and hyperconverged environments.
Sentiment score
7.5
StorMagic SvSAN provides moderate scalability for edge environments, suitable for SMBs, with limitations in complex or large enterprises.
We can simply add more ESX hosts to a cluster and deploy additional controllers without any issues.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
StorMagic SvSAN is easy to scale.
Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
Scaling CPU and servers can be costly due to increased licensing fees beyond two nodes.
Senior Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for stability, robust performance, and high user ratings, especially on well-maintained Windows OS.
Sentiment score
8.8
StorMagic SvSAN offers excellent stability and efficiency, ensuring seamless performance with minimal maintenance and no downtime or data loss.
StorMagic SvSAN has demonstrated flawless stability over the past six years, with no reported downtime, bugs, or glitches.
Senior Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Its ability to seamlessly migrate running machines to another host during maintenance ensures uninterrupted operations and a transparent user experience.
Information Technology Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The stability of StorMagic SvSAN is excellent.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
 

Room For Improvement

StarWind Storage Appliance requires improved integration, easier setup, better insights, and feature parity between demo and paid versions.
StorMagic SvSAN's base version is limited in features, scalability, and usability, needing enhancements in security, management, and training.
It would be beneficial to have a central place for configurations, similar to VMware vCenter.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
Ideally, the console should provide plugins or similar configuration options for seamless integration with these tools.
Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
Unauthorized access to the SvSAN server could cause significant damage.
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its affordability, straightforward licensing, and excellent value compared to competitors for SMEs.
StorMagic SvSAN offers cost-efficient, flexible pricing, 20-30% lower than competitors, simplifying licensing by usable storage capacity, without SAN hardware costs.
The pricing model, based on the usable storage capacity, is simple and predictable.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
I would rate the cost a one out of ten with ten being the most costly.
Consultant at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
Choosing the maximum capacity proved cost-effective, especially compared to alternatives like VMware vSAN, which would have been significantly more expensive based on VCP cores.
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its user-friendly interface, high performance, reliability, excellent support, affordability, and robust data protection.
StorMagic SvSAN offers high availability, easy integration, quick setup, and cost-effectiveness with only two servers required.
I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex.
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
For our solution in production plants, stability is crucial.
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
StorMagic engineers were very helpful in setting up the system, remoting into our system to assist, which was very beneficial.
IT Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

StarWind Storage Appliance
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
NAS (15th), All-Flash Storage (31st)
StorMagic SvSAN
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th), HCI (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed for NAS and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
StorMagic SvSAN, on the other hand, focuses on Software Defined Storage (SDS), holds 3.9% mindshare, down 5.6% since last year.
NAS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
StarWind Storage Appliance1.8%
Dell PowerScale14.4%
NetApp FAS Series10.7%
Other73.1%
NAS
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
StorMagic SvSAN3.9%
Red Hat Ceph Storage10.2%
DataCore SANsymphony6.6%
Other79.3%
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

Kishore CA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Assistant at Bharat Electronics Limited
Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes.
The only drawback is that it takes a bit of time during initial synchronization, especially after restarting the environment. This is a potential area of improvement. There's a synchronization time, but it takes time. Initially, when we start the first environment deployment, it starts synchronizing between the storage. So, it is taking time. One thing is that even when you restart. Let's assume that the synchronization is completed and the storage is synchronized. Both storages are fully synchronized, and it is in sync mode. Now, if we want to restart both nodes, there is a case for maintenance purposes. You took both nodes for maintenance, and we rebooted it. Then, it should not synchronize again. It should be a checksum. And if there is a checksum match, there should be no synchronization again. So, one thing that should be taken care of. Another thing is that I used freeware- the community version, free license, which we deployed using PowerShare. In that case, it was very difficult to bring back another node when one node was faulty. Let's assume that both the nodes are working fine. And we found one node faulty. And we destroyed all the volumes in that and tried to bring it back. So that was a difficult factor. The final solution is that we were not able to bring back the failed node. So, we reconstructed a new data source for that. That is another drawback. In future releases, I would like to see the integration with VMware or some other things as a plugin model for VMware.
Georgi Petrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma
Allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain
What we like the most is how easy it is to implement. I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex. StorMagic SvSAN does not have hardware-specific requirements and is hypervisor agnostic, which makes it easier compared to competitors like HPE SimpliVity that are limited to specific hardware. This solution has allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with StarWind Storage Appliance?
StarWind Storage Appliance's demo version should be similar to the paid one.
What advice do you have for others considering StarWind Storage Appliance?
The tool is mostly for medium companies and requires no maintenance. It has a good price and performance. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?
I find the pricing moderate. However, since some features should be given in the default price, I find it a little bit on the higher side with missing a few features.
What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?
Some advanced features feel like they should be included by default, which are paid. The scalability is a bit limited for me. The advanced features that could be included in the base version are th...
What is your primary use case for StorMagic SvSAN?
I use StorMagic SvSAN for the virtualization of my storage. I mainly use it for the high availability at the small and remote sites that are not accessible to me.
 

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