We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon), FreeNAS, and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"I don't have to rebuild the cluster to add a node."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The recent introduction of inline deduplication and compression has drastically improved our efficiency ratios to make it an economical product. This solution has also had a positive impact on our employees' productivity because it reduces the amount of admin that our staff needs to handle."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"It assists with eliminating storage silos because it provides SMB and NFS protocols. PowerScale has also helped free up our employee's time to focus on other business priorities."
"FreeNAS is much simpler and easier to use than other solutions, but we don't have the complete range of features that come with the full version."
"The ease of use of the 'jail', the management of backups, and copies to easily create test and pre-production scenarios have speeded up the development and distribution of business apps."
"What I like about it is that I can work on it from any computer or any device. The initial setup is very simple. The setup wizard is really helpful."
"Its stability is the most valuable. It is reliable, and we don't have to worry too much about it."
"It has the best storage capacity."
"The solution has been very stable so far."
"It integrates well into either Windows or Linux environments."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"I like that it's stable. This is the reason why we're using these products. We work in the broadcast market, and stability is very important. HPE has global services, and that's also important. Dell and HPE are some big companies, and their solutions are robust and stable."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"There is room for improvement with the updates. It can take a significant amount of time to do a major OS update. However, even though it takes multiple reboots, the cluster stays up. If we want to apply a newer version of the OS, we have to roll back some of the patches so that we can upgrade. It requires a few reboots just to do that. The cluster doesn't come down, everything is still running, but it's time-consuming, at times."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"Additional metadata reporting would be great. We have to use a separate tool to report on that. We would like to view the age of data and how long it has been since someone has accessed a file."
"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[...]the Unified Permission Model that would allow a user to authenticate before being able to access a private file, does not apply."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"The biggest weakness is small file handling. Small file compression options are not enabled out of the box. It would be good to have this enabled by default."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"The one thing that I find difficult to do which is very time-consuming is that I like to have a backup of the important files."
"If you find the documentation, it is always incomplete and fragmented."
"They should include clustering for the solution."
"The support for S3 needs to be improved."
"The latest version of the dashboard doesn't work as good as the previous version."
"FreeNAS should be better prepared for clustering."
"They can improve the integration with PSA systems. This functionality could be better."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"We are waiting for compression."
"I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
