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Pros
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable.""Simple and extremely reliable.""The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance.""The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well.""Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload.""The product has valuable features for data migration.""The product’s technical support services are good."

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"We've found the product to be quite flexible.""I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."

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Cons
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive.""Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface.""The monitoring tool is not well developed.""I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo.""I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS.""Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.""I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."

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"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration.""The solution is quite expensive."

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  • "This solution is priced well and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "Costs are based on the features and it is a considerable amount."
  • "Hitachi NAS Platform’s price is high and depends on SCSI disc capacity."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing six to seven out of ten."
  • "It is a highly-priced product."
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  • "The solution's price is reasonable."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has valuable features for data migration.
    Top Answer:Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.
    Top Answer:I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth.
    Top Answer:We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other… more »
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    Hitachi NAS
    ActiveStor
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    Overview
    Hitachi NAS Platforms help you with file sharing, file server consolidation and application storage for Oracle, Microsoft and virtual environments. Deploy the highest performance per node in the industry. Apply capacity efficiencies that let you actually do more, but with a lot less. Realize significant cost savings for your organization.

    In our most recent product, the ActiveStor Ultra, Panasas has developed a new approach called Dynamic Data Acceleration Technology. It uses a carefully balanced set of HDDs, SATA SSD, NVMe SSD, NVDIMM, and DRAM to provide a combination of excellent performance and low cost per terabyte.

    • HDDs will provide high bandwidth data storage if they are never asked to store anything small and only asked to do large sequential transfers. Therefore, we only store large Component Objects on our low-cost HDDs.

    • SATA SSDs provide cost-effective and highbandwidth storage as a result of not having any seek times, so that’s where we keep our small Component Objects.

    • NVMe SSDs are built for very low latency accesses, so we store all our metadata in a database and keep that database on an NVMe SSD. Metadata accesses are very sensitive to latency, whether it is POSIX metadata for the files being stored or metadata for the internal operations of the OSD.

    • An NVDIMM (a storage class memory device) is the lowest latency type of persistent storage device available, and we use one to store our transaction logs: user data and metadata being written by the application to the OSD, plus our internal metadata. That allows PanFS to provide very low latency commits back to the application.

    • We use the DRAM in each OSD as an extremely low latency cache of the most recently read or written data and metadata.

    To gain the most benefit from the SATA SSD’s performance, we try to keep the SATA SSD about 80% full. If it falls below that, we will (transparently and in the background) pick the smallest Component Objects in the HDD pool and move them to the SSD until it is about 80% full. If the SSD is too full, we will move the largest Component Objects on the SSD to the HDD pool. Every ActiveStor Ultra Storage Node performs this optimization independently and continuously. It’s easy for an ActiveStor Ultra to pick which Component Objects to move, it just needs to look in its local NVMe-based database.

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    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Comms Service Provider18%
    University13%
    Educational Organization10%
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    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 4 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 13th in NAS with 1 review. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 7.4, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "It's more scalable than most platforms because of its solid virtualization features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and NetApp FAS Series.

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