Likelihood to Recommend EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS is well suited for larger files (greater the 128 Kb) and where you need to have everything in one common name space. Where it is less appropriate is for many small files (millions of files less than 128 Kb in size) - this causes the protection level to becoming mirroring, which will cost more space.
Read full review We save a lot of money using QNAP for the backup of Virtual machines. We installed a QNAP in the datacenter of our Cloud Provider and the cost of the backup and storage that we use is, at least, 1/10 of the cost that we had in the past. We can choose what kind of drives we can install, so if we want affordable we can use 5400/7200 hard drives, if we need speed we can use SSD drives.
Read full review Pros NAS Storage Capacity and Performance details of the array Alert and Operations details Read full review Management interface is very useful Quick solutions can be produced with flexible storage pools It can create a powerful customizable system on its own, along with connectivity features and add-ons. A powerful customizable system can be created with flexible connectivity features and add-ons. Advanced user management can be easily provided either in its own interface or on the domain. It can take on the role you want with its integrated modes or add-ons that you can install later. Most wonderful feature, advanced support service, we never had any unsolved problems and the support engineer was always interested, followed one to one With web, ssh, ftp, winscp connections, you can easily access in any environment. Read full review Cons Some upgrades require the entire cluster to be rebooted simultaneously. In this day and age, that should not be necessary. This is my biggest disappointment with Isilon to date. When using multiple storage pools you have to be very careful with your capacity management. Filling up one pool can cause an overflow of data to a pool that is less performance driven. Do not underestimate your capacities or you will find yourself in a tight spot. Block size is almost always an issue with Isilon. It does not handle all types of data well. In many cases PACS and VNA data is best to be stored on a different storage platform that will utilize the capacity more efficiently that Isilon is capable of. Deduplication seems to be less efficient on Isilon than on other platforms for similar types of data. Read full review I can not think of any at this moment. Not a con - but security issues are due to users' negligence. Read full review Support Rating QNAP NAS is a really good product, but I think the best part is the support for the products. Whenever I have a question or imagine something that won't happen, I can ask the support side. When the support engineer understands what I want to do, he does his best.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Raw disk space vs. logical disk space ratio was significantly better on the Isilon. Fast cache using SSD drives for faster searching is available on the Isilon but not available on the Overland solution. Isilon solution included faster backend switching between nodes.
Read full review Our historical supplier was a QNAP partner so we started with them.
We resell on request also NETGEAR and Synology. Maybe is for the practice on them but we think that they are easier to use and configure.
The thing i can affirm with convinction is that are realy durable! I think i never repaired a QNAP NAS and, we resell them from about 10 years.
They have all the functionality we ever had to our customers.
Read full review Return on Investment Isilon provides very high value for money Matches the performance and storage requirements of the arrays EMC provides very skillful and high response team in case of any issues in isilon Read full review I cannot quantify, but it really saves a lot of money for backup. Read full review ScreenShots