User Reviews of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) & FreeNAS
Updated March 2024
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review
Eric Burgueño
High-Performance Computing Services Manager at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Simplified data management, tremendously reducing our users’ cognitive overhead
The only thing that I think PowerScale could do better is improving the HTTP data access protocol. At the present, you cannot protect access to data via HTTP or HTTPS the same way that you can secure data access through other protocols like NFS or SMB. You can either access a file because it can be access by anyone in the organization, or...
FreeNAS review
John Boggero
Consultant at ITIP
Efficient, good reporting, and integrates well with both Windows and Linux systems
One of the improvements in the most recent version is the support to better control the temperature of the equipment. For example, we are able to retrieve and monitor the temperature of devices easily. My advice to anybody who is considering this solution is to think about what level of support is needed. FreeNAS is web-based, community...
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