Dell EMC PowerStore vs. NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) Comparison

Dell EMC PowerStore

NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS)

Dell EMC PowerStore

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NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS)

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Senior Storage Engineer at Hyundai autoever

The footproot of the arrays is significantly smaller while the application response time has approved

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"The pricing is good.""It consolidates a lot of our storage into one or two chassis, which makes money savings in our data center.""We have used the solution’s thin provisioning to add new applications without having to purchase additional storage. We use thin provisioning on all of our flash arrays at this point. It gives us the choice to be able to overprovision and take advantage of compression, compaction, and thin provisioning all at the same time. We can get more out of the purchases that we make.""I would like it to be a lot less expensive, but it's been a very good solution for us.""The price of the upgrading of the solution is high. I could buy a whole unit of All Flash FAS 300 with a shelf for around $285,000. Yet if I want to add one additional shelf, it'll cost me $275,000. So they want you to upgrade by replacing it. It's cheaper to buy a whole new unit than to just scale out. The upside is they last. AFF lasts us three or four years. So that's a good investment.""It definitely reduces costs because it simply takes less power to run these systems. While the SSDs don't take power, they are in general very big right now. So, the running cost has decreased for a lot of our customers.""We benefited from implementing all-flash by reducing our data center footprint. We took it from 30 racks to just over five. This is one of the biggest savings for us.""One of the reasons we like this solution is that all of the features are included with the one license."

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What do you think about Dell EMC PowerStore? Is it actually a new product? Top Answer: PowerStore is flexible, scalable, simple, and performant with market-leading economics for a wide range of legacy and next-gen apps. It is only Flash and can support many workloads from today's… more »	What is the Biggest Difference Between Dell EMC Unity and NetApp AFF? Top Answer: Well, Is one thing NetApp Storage has vs other brand is the mix of protocol CIFS with NFS booth working together in the same volume that features is difficult to find in other Storage but the… more » Read all 8 answers What is the Biggest Difference Between Dell EMC Unity and NetApp AFF? Top Answer: This question is very dependent on your requirements. Both are among the best in the field. Of course, the intended cost is decisively based on the Gartner magic quadrant storage 2020 Net app company… more » Read all 8 answers What is the Biggest Difference Between Dell EMC Unity and NetApp AFF? Top Answer: The answer depends on your needs and budget. If you want high performance (who doesn't) or let's say the latency matters more than IOPS for your needs, Netapp AFF is the right choice. You can approach… more » Read all 8 answers
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3rd out of 13 in NVMe Views 4,411 Comparisons 3,590 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Rating N/A	2nd out of 28 in All-Flash Storage Arrays Views 25,157 Comparisons 16,475 Reviews 43 Average Words per Review 829 Rating 8.9
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PowerStore	NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp AFF, NetApp Flash FAS
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Overview
PowerStore 1000T through 9000T models provide organizations with all the benefits of a unified storage platform for block, file and vVol data, while enabling flexible growth with the intelligent scale-up and scale-out capability of appliance clusters. In addition, automated management of resources across the cluster results in superior storage utilization and simplified administration. Designed for the modern data center, PowerStore’s data-centric design with NVMe and hardware-enabled Advanced Data Reduction and 4:1 DRR deliver critical performance and storage efficiency for both traditional and modern applications.	NetApp AFF8000 All Flash FAS systems combine all-flash performance with unified data management from flash to disk to cloud. Leverage the Data Fabric to move data securely across your choice of clouds—enabled by Cloud ONTAP™ and NetApp Private Storage for Cloud. Plus, you get the industry’s most efficient and comprehensive integrated data protection suite, on premises or in the cloud.
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Information Not Available	Acibadem Healthcare Group, AmTrust Financial Services, Citrix Systems, DWD, Mantra Group
Top Industries
VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company39% Comms Service Provider23% Financial Services Firm4% Manufacturing Company4%	REVIEWERS Healthcare Company16% Financial Services Firm12% Energy/Utilities Company9% Retailer8% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider22% Manufacturing Company12% Government5%
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No Data Available	REVIEWERS Small Business12% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise76% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business10% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise79%

Dell EMC PowerStore is ranked 3rd in NVMe while NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 43 reviews. Dell EMC PowerStore is rated 0.0, while NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is rated 9.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) writes "Good price to performance ratio, no latency, and simple to use". Dell EMC PowerStore is most compared with Dell EMC Unity XT, Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe, Pure Storage FlashArray, HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is most compared with Dell EMC Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem.

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