We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s technical support services are good."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"It is worry-free. I do not have to sit there and tend it."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StorageWorks MSA. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Hitachi NAS Platform report.
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