StarWind Storage Appliance and Pure FlashArray X NVMe are competitive storage solutions. Pure FlashArray X NVMe is regarded as superior due to its features, making it considered worth the higher price.
Features: StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its flexibility, scalability, and comprehensive set of features that cater to SMBs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe stands out with its performance, reliability, and advanced NVMe technology, appealing to enterprise-level requirements.
Room for Improvement: StarWind users indicate a need for better integration with third-party tools and improvements in documentation. Pure FlashArray X NVMe users desire enhanced features in analytics and expanded support for different workloads.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind Storage Appliance is noted for its straightforward deployment model and responsive customer service. Pure FlashArray X NVMe also offers easy deployment but is recognized for providing robust customer support and proactive service measures.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind Storage Appliance is noted for its cost-effectiveness and substantial return on investment, particularly for SMBs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe, although pricier, delivers high ROI through its exceptional performance and reliability.
Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
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