SolidFire (discontinued)

SolidFire (discontinued)

SolidFire (discontinued)

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolidFire (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	NetApp acquired the scale-out flash storage startup SolidFire in late 2015. The product line was discontinued in October of 2023, and is no longer available from NetApp.	N/A

Pricing

SolidFire (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SolidFire (discontinued)
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	SolidFire (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	SolidFire (discontinued) Verified User Director Chose SolidFire (discontinued) All in all, Net App Solid Fire is a strong competitor to Nutanix AOS or HPE SimpliVity. It is conceded that there are plusses and minuses for the competitive landscape, however, Net App Solid Fire is a worthwhile competitor at a very competitive price point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose SolidFire (discontinued) SolidFire was chosen over these other service providers because of relationships we have with the company, with our reps, and with the local Denver presence. We also are a partner, and we felt that the solution stacked up technologically very well against the competition and … Incentivized Helpful? Philip Sellers Solutions Engineer Chose SolidFire (discontinued) Solidfire is block-only, so NetApp FAS, HPE 3PAR, Tegile and Dell EMC Unity have the ability to also run file and block on the same array. Performance scale in a single array of Solidfire is matched only with other software-defined architectures like EMC ScaleIO Controller based … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to understand Pro Ongoing maintenance Pro Price point
Top Cons	Minus Technical issues Minus Quality support Minus Sub par

Features

SolidFire (discontinued)

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	SolidFire (discontinued) 8.1 3 Ratings 12% below category average
Flash Array Performance	10.02 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	8.02 Ratings
Data Compression	8.83 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	9.02 Ratings
Simplicity	6.43 Ratings
Power Savings	6.43 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SolidFire (discontinued)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	SolidFire (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SolidFire (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Discontinued Products Solidfire is a good, multi-purpose array for iSCSI environments. Grid architecture allows incremental, linear expansion of the array both in capacity and performance. The all-flash is a very high performance, low latency platform for a lot of applications. The way the company has architected the platform allows for continual upgrades and removes the lift-and-load replacements if you stay with Solidfire in the future. The Solidfire fiber channel implementation is workable, but largely there is a checkbox. I cannot imagine any fiber channel shop is going to look at a Solidfire seriously, unless they are looking to move towards Ethernet based transport. Write intensive workloads struggle on the array. The double-helix data protection combined with the architecture can make writes more latent than expected - well into the teens and 20's of ms within the array. Incentivized Philip Sellers Solutions Engineer Read full review
Pros	Discontinued Products Speed is incredible. Ongoing maintenance is great. Price point was quite good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Discontinued Products API documentation could use some help GUI can be slow Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Discontinued Products When we have had problems, the response on the Solidfire side has been strong, but not perfect. As they scale and integrate into NetApp, support from regions outside of the USA are having a more difficult time diagnosing and addressing issues for complex problems. The Boulder, CO, and Raleigh, NC, support teams are both extremely strong and provide top-notch support. ActiveIQ is a great support tool both for NetApp/Solidfire and for the customer. The proactive support tickets opened have been helpful. The node-based support has been excellent - meaning when we had a DIMM fail, they sent a replacement node - no time consuming troubleshooting of internal components to fix the issue. Upgrades are handled by SF technicians, so it feels white-glove Incentivized Philip Sellers Solutions Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Discontinued Products SolidFire was chosen over these other service providers because of relationships we have with the company, with our reps, and with the local Denver presence. We also are a partner, and we felt that the solution stacked up technologically very well against the competition and was more cost effective. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Discontinued Products The ROI was quick - under 1 year Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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