Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs Peaxy comparison

Microsoft and Peaxy are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. Microsoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 6.5, while Peaxy is ranked #32. Microsoft holds a 7.8% mindshare in SDS, compared to Peaxy’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 71% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Storage Spaces Di...

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

8th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Peaxy

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

32nd

Average Rating

0.0

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is 7.8%, up from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Peaxy is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Grzegorz Kedziora

General Manager and CTO at SIIT

The initial setup is straightforward, but the solution has strict compatibility methods

I use this solution to make a few-to-one storage from the internal disk to the servers The integration is not difficult because there is no GUI, but we need to use a PowerShell command. This makes it difficult to monitor and to see the components' statuses. There are strict compatibility methods.…

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

How does VMware vSAN compare with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

We found VMware’s vSAN was easy to set up, configure, and manage compared to other solutions we considered. It is best suited for small- to medium-sized organizations. It is easy to create load bal...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

Its technical support is excellent.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

The solution is expensive.

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Comparisons

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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

Peaxy provides a large-scale data infrastructure that consolidates data on and off premises into data lakes supported by the unified Peaxy namespace.

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