We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Quantum ActiveScale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The scalability is good."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"Its security can be improved."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"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 disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
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Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 19th in File and Object Storage. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. 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 Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID and MinIO, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, Qumulo and NetApp StorageGRID.
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