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 technology is very good, it performs well."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"The performance is good."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It is a stable solution."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"The product does save time for our company."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The tool’s integration is very easy. This feature has helped us reduce development time. The solution also has many out-of-the-box features like versioning support and management of roles and permissions. The product also supports clustered deployment."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Its security can be improved."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The setup is very complex."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"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 documentation of the solution should improve."
"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."
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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