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We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and StarWind Storage Appliance 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 is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload.""Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable.""Simple and extremely reliable.""The product has valuable features for data migration.""The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance.""The product’s technical support services are good.""The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."

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"We saw an ROI. We have saved both time and money by using it.""Another good feature is that you can pause the appliance if you want to move it from one location to another and then once it's moved you can resume it, this way you can physically move the whole cluster or storage without any downtime. Its really easy to use, if you have a good foundation in storage and clustering then you will need less then one hour to figure out how to operate it.""They call us when monitoring shows a possible issue and are very flexible in working with our schedule to troubleshoot when it is convenient for us.""We are able to easily back up our data and send it to an offsite location.""The integration is excellent.""Having instant failover redundancy helps me sleep easier at night.""The management interface is the most valuable feature for us.""I would say data protection and easy management are the most valuable features of the product...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

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Cons
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product.""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.""Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive.""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.""The monitoring tool is not well developed."

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"They could improve by providing integration with HP.""An improvement would be if they reached out to education customers with other available products.""StarWind should improve the synchronization time of its product. There should be a standard operating procedure (SOP) for synchronization to reduce the time it takes.""StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage.""It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage.""Other solutions, such as StorMagic, offer more flexibility in terms of handling caching and moving data between additional nodes.""With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong.""The dashboard features are not in the free version."

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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 costs about 50,000 euros."
  • "StarWind by far provides the best bang for the buck."
  • "On the homepage, you can not see the pricing."
  • "The cost is determined by various factors, including the amount of terabyte storage you require, the number of nodes you want to purchase, and the duration of your maintenance agreement"
  • "With StarWind Storage Appliance, the payments made towards the licensing part of the product are on a per-node basis, making it cost-effective for us to use the solution in our company."
  • "We found that the price of StarWind was very good compared to VMware or Nutanix."
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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:I would say data protection and easy management are the most valuable features of the product...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
    Top Answer:With StarWind Storage Appliance, the payments made towards the licensing part of the product are on a per-node basis, making it cost-effective for us to use the solution in our company. StarWind… more »
    Top Answer:From an improvement perspective, I can't comment much about StarWind Storage Appliance since we use only two to three nodes in our company, with which I am currently happy. If I use the product at an… more »
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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.

    For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.

    Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out. 

    StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup. 

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    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
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    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Midsize Enterprise33%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Hitachi NAS Platform vs. StarWind Storage Appliance
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi NAS Platform vs. StarWind Storage Appliance and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while StarWind Storage Appliance is ranked 10th in NAS with 9 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 7.4, while StarWind Storage Appliance is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Storage Appliance writes "Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo, whereas StarWind Storage Appliance is most compared with FreeNAS, StoneFly VSO NAS, VMware vSAN and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Hitachi NAS Platform vs. StarWind Storage Appliance report.

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