User Reviews of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series & NetApp NVMe AFF A800

Updated March 2024

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Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series review

David Pope
David Pope
Solutions Developer at Next Dimension Inc.
Mostly typical of production storage for virtual machines but with fewer features...
You can not buy a lot of options for these devices. There are a lot of things that it does not do. Some things that it does not do that we would like it to do include easy tiering. If you have got spindles and you want to cache a couple of terabytes of storage on SSD, that would be something we would like to see that, currently, it does not...
NetApp NVMe AFF A800 review

reviewer2081640
Programmer Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI
Cost and speed are the biggest concerns. NetApp systems they're not slow, but they don't match the raw IOPs of some other parallel file systems design. The underlying architecture of the NetApp system isn't as conducive to pure raw speed, whether it's data I/O or metadata I/O, compared to some of their competitors. So that's a significant...

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