We performed a comparison between MinIO and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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 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."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"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 initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"The solution provides many controllers."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"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."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The developer support could be better."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"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."
"It usually comes down to just what you hit and the value you're getting when you spend the money and license the products. I would always go, "If you want to make things better, lower your price and make your licensing simpler." There's always an opportunity around that."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"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."
"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, Pure Storage FlashArray, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our MinIO vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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