We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The performance is good."
"The performance is good."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It is a stable platform."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The product does save time for our company."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"The disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"The setup is very complex."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"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 tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"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 lacks documentation."
"Documentation could be improved."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack. See our Dell ECS vs. MinIO report.
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