I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance.
Consulting Storage Engineer at Columbia HCA Healthcare
Nov 1, 2016
We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications.
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Server Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 30, 2016
One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue.
I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T
Senior Server Network Enginner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 6, 2016
I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice.
Consulting Storage Engineer at Columbia HCA Healthcare
Nov 1, 2016
As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve.
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Server Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 30, 2016
A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series.
