We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
"This solution has limited storage."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera.
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