Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series Storage Arrays are storage-area network (SAN) available via hybrid and all flash storage. Presently the product line includes the hybrid storage arrays models ThinkSystem DE2000H, ThinkSystem DE4000H, ThinkSystem DE6000H, and the all-flash storage array models ThinkSystem DE4000F, and ThinkSystem DE6000F.	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

Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	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
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Top Pros	Pro Cloud servers Pro Rack space	Pro Responsive customer Pro Customer support Pro Responsive customer support
Top Cons	Minus Requires improvement Minus Missing functionality Minus No missing functionality	Minus Full functionality

Features

Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series - 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
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	NetApp FAS Storage Arrays Score 8.4 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	NetApp AFF A-Series Score 9.6 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	Lenovo My experience with Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series has been commendable and everything has been running smoothly. Data storage and analysis takes place effectively under this platform system giving our teams best insights on planning and decision making on time. All our financial records have great database that is secure and cannot be easily compromised by unauthorized access. The customer support team is reliable and always ready to offer help where needed 24/7. Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor 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	Lenovo It easily updates our systems to comply with international standards. Networking our systems with cloud servers Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor 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	Lenovo I have not experienced any downside that requires improvement. No missing functionality across all the features Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor 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	Lenovo I have not worked with a similar product in our company but this has been a reliable product throughout. It is easy and flexible to work with and the cost is manageable. It has suitable data storage plans that have been favorable to our workload demands. The results have always been positive and Return on Investment was achieved within the planned time. It has been profitable to all our departments meeting all data security requirements and working at reliable speed in file transfer. Incentivized Steven Egan Financial Advisor 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	Lenovo No answers on this topic	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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