We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and NEC D3 series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"FlashSystem offers proven technology in a compact package."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"Our customers have raised concerns about the limitations of the FlashSystem 5200 and 7300, which only offer a 32-gigabyte connection."
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
"The marketing could be improved."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews while NEC D3 series is ranked 21st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while NEC D3 series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NEC D3 series writes "Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF, whereas NEC D3 series is most compared with .
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