We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Simple and extremely reliable."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"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."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"The performance monitoring feature is useful as it can report in 15 minute intervals by hour, day, week, month, or by a custom date range."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"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."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"The marketing could be improved."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."
"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."
Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 5th in NAS with 106 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Good pricing and works well, but it is old-fashioned and should be replaced with something new". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Qumulo, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF. See our Hitachi NAS Platform vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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