We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and NetApp FAS Series 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."Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"NAS stability"
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"The solution is stable."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"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 would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"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."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 4 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 7.4, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "It's more scalable than most platforms because of its solid virtualization features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance. See our Hitachi NAS Platform vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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