We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"The storage features are valuable."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"The product’s UI could be better."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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