NetApp AFF A-Series vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NetApp AFF A-Series
ScoreĀ 9.2Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A
StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
ScoreĀ 9.0Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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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 hyperconvergenceā€¦N/A
Pricing
NetApp AFF A-SeriesStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Editions & Modules
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NetApp AFF A-SeriesStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
NetApp AFF A-SeriesStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
NetApp AFF A-Series
9.3
7 Ratings
2% above category average
StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
9.6
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Flash Array Performance10.07 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Flash Array Integration10.06 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data Compression10.06 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades10.06 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Simplicity8.07 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Power Savings8.06 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray
ScoreĀ 9.6Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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Pure Storage FlashArray
ScoreĀ 9.6Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
Enterprises
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray
ScoreĀ 9.6Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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ScoreĀ 9.6Ā outĀ ofĀ 10
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User Ratings
NetApp AFF A-SeriesStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(8 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
NetApp AFF A-SeriesStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend
NetApp
Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
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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.
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Pros
NetApp
  • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
  • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
  • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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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.
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Cons
NetApp
  • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
  • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
  • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
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StarWind
  • Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive.
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Alternatives Considered
NetApp
I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies.
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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.
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Return on Investment
NetApp
  • ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at
  • Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller.
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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.
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