The high availability was most valuable because they come with what's called 100% data availability. With special terms, they license and guarantee 100% data availability. That was probably one of the key features or components that HPE was offering with that model.
Head of IT Infrastructure Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 23, 2020
The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption.
Principal Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Oct 22, 2020
All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license.
Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage.