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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.
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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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  • "This solution is priced well and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "Costs are based on the features and it is a considerable amount."
  • "Hitachi NAS Platform’s price is high and depends on SCSI disc capacity."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing six to seven out of ten."
  • "It is a highly-priced product."
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  • "It’s difficult for us to get money, so make sure you get everything in order, because there’s no going back and saying “oh, I missed this or that”, so make sure you plan well and well in advance."
  • "it’s not an inexpensive solution and it may not be for the cost-sensitive customer."
  • "The process for going to cluster mode is expensive."
  • "Most storage vendors also have software, or licensing bundles, which may offer the required licenses considerably cheaper, but do also maybe offer licenses, which are not needed."
  • "There are products available in market with comparatively lower costs."
  • "Cost effective storage for all performance levels (including all-flash)."
  • "The only area that could be improved is to lower prices for their All Flash FAS."
  • "The price it not low, but comparing features to other vendors, the price can be balanced."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has valuable features for data migration.
    Top Answer:Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.
    Top Answer:Have you considered a NetApp FAS Storage for your NAS needs? I am sure it fits very well.
    Top Answer:The price of NetApp FAS Series is the same as Dell's cost, so I don't think there are any comparable elements in the pricing part. The tool is expensive.
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    Overview
    Hitachi NAS Platforms help you with file sharing, file server consolidation and application storage for Oracle, Microsoft and virtual environments. Deploy the highest performance per node in the industry. Apply capacity efficiencies that let you actually do more, but with a lot less. Realize significant cost savings for your organization.

    NetApp FAS series is an enterprise-level storage system that provides a wide variety of data management services, including data protection, block and file storage, and data management.

    NetApp FAS is designed to be highly scalable, allowing your organization to grow storage capacity on demand. NetApp FAS also supports multiple protocols, including NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel, as well as various storage architectures, including SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network-Attached Storage).

    The FAS series has multiple data protection and data management features, including snapshots, cloning, replication, and deduplication, to help secure your data and manage it more efficiently. The system integrates with other NetApp products and solutions, to create a unified data management platform. The system can be deployed on-premise, on multi-cloud environments, or hybrid.

    NetApp FAS Series Benefits and Features

    NetApp FAS series provides its users with several key benefits and features, including:

    • Scalability: NetApp FAS series is easy to scale, allowing organizations to rapidly grow their storage capacity according to demand.
    • Security: Protect and manage your data with various data protection and data management tools, including snapshots, cloning, replication, and deduplication.
    • Seamless integration: Integrate with other NetApp products and solutions to ensure a unified data management platform across on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
    • Reduced costs: Consolidation of multiple storage boxes greatly reduces the data center footprint. From a management point of view, with NetApp FAS you manage a single storage box instead of multiple storage boxes.

    • Compatibility: Forward and backward compatibility ensures that you don’t have to trade in existing controllers. New controllers can always integrate with previously released controllers.
    • Multi-protocol support: Support for multiple protocols, including NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel.
    • High performance and availability: The solution has high input and output per second performance and ensures that critical data remains accessible in the event of a hardware failure.

    • Intuitive interface: The FAS series has a user-friendly interface and management dashboard, making it easy to manage your storage systems. With unified management, you can quickly run a single protocol on your entire system

    • Data cloning and replication: Easily clone databases of any size. Clones occupy a very, very small footprint on the storage until they are severed from the main database. Replications carried out by the system are fast and require very little bandwidth.

    Reviews from Real Users

    NetApp FAS Series stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its speed, reliability, and a wide variety of features.

    Adriano S., IT project and infrastructure service manager, writes, “The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage.”

    Temitope O., a NetApp product manager at Hiperdist Ltd, says, “I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system. You rather have a system for a particular protocol and another system for other protocols, especially in a big environment like mine.”

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    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Educational Organization59%
    Computer Software Company7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Financial Services Firm4%
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    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Hitachi NAS Platform vs. NetApp FAS Series
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi NAS Platform vs. NetApp FAS Series and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    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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