Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

Dell PowerMax NVMe

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell PowerMax NVMe	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Dell PowerMax NVME is presented as a end-to-end NVMe, storage class memory (SCM) for persistent storage, real-time machine learning and up to 350GB per second to power critical workloads.	N/A
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	The NetApp® EF-Series is a family of entry-level and midrange all-flash storage arrays that accelerate organizations' access to data and help derive value from it. These systems offer NVMe flash storage and provide more affordable to extreme IOPS, boasting response times under 100 microseconds and bandwidth up to 44GBps.	N/A

Pricing

Dell PowerMax NVMe

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Dell PowerMax NVMe	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Dell PowerMax NVMe	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Top Pros	Pro Data processing Pro Processing speed Pro Major issue	Pro Backup and restore Pro Low latency Pro Data analysis
Top Cons	Minus High cost Minus Cost of maintenance Minus Not affordable	Minus High end Minus Hard to understand Minus Need to improve

Features

Dell PowerMax NVMe

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	Dell PowerMax NVMe 9.6 2 Ratings 5% above category average	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 8.9 5 Ratings 2% below category average
Flash Array Performance	10.02 Ratings	9.35 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	10.02 Ratings	9.65 Ratings
Data Compression	10.02 Ratings	9.34 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	10.02 Ratings	8.15 Ratings
Simplicity	8.72 Ratings	9.45 Ratings
Power Savings	9.12 Ratings	7.95 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Dell PowerMax NVMe	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.3 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Dell VMAX Score 9.7 out of 10	Dell VMAX Score 9.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Dell PowerMax NVMe	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (2 ratings)	9.2 (5 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dell PowerMax NVMe	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend	Dell Technologies PowerMax is suited for a mid-tier to enterprise company. It can easily take on and manage what it may take with various storage arrays. This can work in any vertical, healthcare, manufacturing, financial, insurance, etc. It can easily manage massive workloads and deliver very high-end performance. Is not feasible for small companies, this can and would be very expensive to maintain and operate, and it truly doesn't make sense when a much smaller array can be used. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NetApp NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is useful for the application that required high badwidth , IOP's like Video surveillance, analytics (hadoop), online transaction processing applications, fast data backup and restore. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is less appropriate for the application that required low/medium IOP's . i.e log collection application server, snapshot collection ... etc. Incentivized NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Read full review
Pros	Dell Technologies Fastest storage array in the world. this system provide the performance density up to 7.5 million IOPS5 per rack Its support maximum system Incentivized SS Srishti Shukla Territory Business Manager Read full review	NetApp Storage pooling with thin provisioning Solution of MetroCluster in Cluster-Mode known as MCC very good solution for more than 500 users per cluster impressive IOPS, microsecond response times Faster database application Incentivized Lukas Mizera Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist - Storage Management Read full review
Cons	Dell Technologies Can be complex if someone is not versed on the product. Expensive. High cost of maintenance. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NetApp NetApp EF-Series All Flash Array need to perform the additional configuration for multipathing Experienced are required to manage this storage Incentivized KR Kaushal Rawat AIX Adminsitrator Read full review
Usability	Dell Technologies No answers on this topic	NetApp HW and SW of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy to use, with very good support. Incentivized Lukas Mizera Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist - Storage Management Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Dell Technologies Incentivized SS Srishti Shukla Territory Business Manager Read full review	NetApp I have not been able to work with such a great platform in my career experience. Data storage and networking of all databases have been a great achievement of this platform. The user interface is simple and the dashboard shows clear trends in data infrastructure. There are backup storage systems on our cloud servers in case we lose any data. It has an automated update system that keeps our applications up to date. Incentivized Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Dell Technologies Cost Opex vs Capex Maintenance Costs. Learning curve on software to maintain the array. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NetApp High dedupe ratio Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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