NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
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

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays	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
	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Top Pros	Pro Backup and restore Pro Low latency Pro Data analysis	Pro Responsive customer Pro Customer support Pro Responsive customer support
Top Cons	Minus High end Minus Hard to understand Minus Need to improve	Minus Full functionality

Features

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 8.9 5 Ratings 2% below category average	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) 9.6 2 Ratings 6% above category average
Flash Array Performance	9.35 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	9.65 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Data Compression	9.34 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	8.15 Ratings	9.92 Ratings
Simplicity	9.45 Ratings	9.92 Ratings
Power Savings	7.95 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

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

User Ratings
	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (5 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays	StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
Likelihood to Recommend	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	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	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	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	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	StarWind Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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	StarWind No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	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	NetApp High dedupe ratio Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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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