Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Kaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.	N/A
StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	StarWind SA helps organizations with fixed compute platforms meet storage performance and capacity growth requirements by providing them with high-performance and scalable storage covered by 24/7 support. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed to handle high-performance or unpredictable data growth. It serves storage as a single namespace to different environments via multiple uplink protocols: iSCSI, SMB3, NFS, including RDMA-capable iSER and SMB Direct. As an all-flash hyperconvergence…	N/A

Pricing

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Top Pros	Pro Super simple Pro Simple to use	Pro Responsive customer Pro Customer support Pro Responsive customer support
Top Cons	Minus Support is lacking Minus Data reduction Minus Third party	Minus Full functionality

Features

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued) - Ratings	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) 9.6 2 Ratings 5% above category average
Flash Array Performance	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Data Compression	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	00 Ratings	9.92 Ratings
Simplicity	00 Ratings	9.92 Ratings
Power Savings	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Small Businesses	DBeaver Score 8.4 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	DBeaver Score 8.4 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	DBeaver Score 8.4 out of 10	Dell VMAX Score 9.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	Silk K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	StarWind It is well suited in data transfer and storage of files under secure environment. It has contributed to immediate Return on Investment with low cost performance. I totally recommend it to any company for its high speed performance under secure data channels. It does reliable reporting on data integration and analysis on daily basis pointing out areas that have challenging operations. Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review
Pros	Silk Great performance Great support Super-simple to use Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	StarWind Very cost-effective. You choose the hardware. Very reliable and performant. Excellent proactive support. They call us when there is an issue. Very flexible. Can mix and match spinning disk and SSD depending on capacity and performance needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Silk Not well known, so third-party support is lacking Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1) Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	StarWind Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Silk We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	StarWind I have not been able to work with same featured product in our organization, however the performance of this platform has been excellent. The support center has been reliable and trustworthy giving us 100% support on daily basis when we deach them. It is affordable to any business enterprise that is ready to implement data storage and transfer programs. The maintenance and scalable cost is reasonable and and the services has been great. Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Silk Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks. Less time managing storage. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	StarWind It enabled us to upgrade our storage and switch from FC to iSCSI at a reasonable cost. iSCSi is so much less expensive to maintain. StarWind is upgradable and you never lose your investment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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