We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The tool is easy to use."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"The performance is good."
"It is a stable platform."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"The tool’s integration is very easy. This feature has helped us reduce development time. The solution also has many out-of-the-box features like versioning support and management of roles and permissions. The product also supports clustered deployment."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The setup is very complex."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"Documentation could be improved."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore and SwiftStack. See our Dell ECS vs. MinIO report.
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