We performed a comparison between MinIO and NetApp StorageGRID 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 most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"It has enabled us to save money on storage costs. We removed our tape library."
"The most valuable feature is tiering."
"Right now, we have an older StorageGRID. I like that we can grow it."
"It helps automate our storage infrastructure."
"It has improved our operational efficiency through time consumption and logistics by 40 to 50 percent. Everything that had to do with our legacy tape solution has been improved and is now more efficient."
"It has awesome scalability. We consume it with storage appliance nodes, then we just plug and play as we need more."
"The backup features are valuable. I've heard from our backup and data protection people that our clients are very satisfied with the performance in junction with the backup, which they archive on this type of object storage."
"The technical support is good."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"The developer support could be better."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"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."
"Beyond the initial setup, this product is a little bit difficult to configure."
"The price is something that NetApp could improve, as with most companies. NetApp is known for not being the cheapest storage option, which is also valid for StorageGRID. There are other storage options on the market which we are aware of and have done proofs of concept for, but you cannot really compare the list prices because, as a big user of NetApp storages, we have totally different prices than some list prices. Still, the price information we got for other options are almost always less expensive than StorageGRID."
"The integration with more apps has room for improvement."
"I would like to see them integrate more with the monitoring platforms. It is a bit difficult to get automated monitoring of the system."
"The redundancy and reliability are great, but I also see room for improvement there. I would like to see more efficiency in the storage and dedupe/compression solutions."
"One key improvement I'd like to see in StorageGRID is enhanced visibility for management purposes."
"There was a small amount of confusion when working with StorageGRID and Active Directory for access. We had to do things three to four times resulting in our engineer troubleshooting a couple of things. The location of the menu, along with what is inside the menu: configurations, settings, etc., is not straightforward to users. Most users are Windows-based. So, when make logical changes to the menu which are not similar to Windows, users and administrators get confused."
"Improvements need to be made in the support area."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while NetApp StorageGRID is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while NetApp StorageGRID is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp StorageGRID writes "Scalable object storage with robust data durability with efficient geo-distribution and comprehensive lifecycle management ensuring managing of large volumes of unstructured data". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack, whereas NetApp StorageGRID is most compared with Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Scality RING, Cloudian HyperStore and Hitachi Content Platform. See our MinIO vs. NetApp StorageGRID report.
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