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."It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"This product is very competitive."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"The product does save time for our company."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"The setup is very complex."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"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."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"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."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"The developer support could be better."
"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 product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
"The solution lacks documentation."
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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