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StarWind Storage Appliance vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
9.0
StarWind Storage Appliance customer service is praised for 24x7 troubleshooting, professionalism, high technical support ratings, and helpful videos.
Sentiment score
10.0
StorMagic SvSAN offers highly praised, responsive 24/7 customer support with knowledgeable consultants and efficient problem-solving.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.0
StarWind Storage Appliance requires improved integration, easier setup, better insights, and feature parity between demo and paid versions.
Sentiment score
3.8
StorMagic SvSAN's licensing limits features; users seek better backup, multi-node support, and improved UI with cloud options.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
StarWind Storage Appliance is scalable, adaptable, hardware-independent, supports unlimited storage, and is effective in standalone and hyperconverged environments.
Sentiment score
7.8
StorMagic SvSAN enables scalable edge device setups, supporting up to three servers, but advanced networking aids in easier expansion.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
8.0
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its affordability, straightforward licensing, and excellent value compared to competitors for SMEs.
No sentiment score available
StorMagic SvSAN provides cost-effective storage solutions with competitive pricing and enterprise features, eliminating SAN hardware expenses.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for stability, robust performance, and high user ratings, especially on well-maintained Windows OS.
Sentiment score
8.1
StorMagic SvSAN is highly praised for stability, efficient resource use, reliable redundancy, and performance during power outages.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.3
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its user-friendly interface, high performance, reliability, excellent support, affordability, and robust data protection.
Sentiment score
8.4
StorMagic SvSAN offers cost-effective, reliable high availability with easy integration, minimizing latency and downtime in two-node setups.
 

Categories and Ranking

StarWind Storage Appliance
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
NAS (14th), All-Flash Storage (28th)
StorMagic SvSAN
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (7th), HCI (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed for NAS and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, down 1.5% compared to last year.
StorMagic SvSAN, on the other hand, focuses on Software Defined Storage (SDS), holds 7.4% mindshare, up 4.8% since last year.
NAS
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

Kishore CA - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes.
The only drawback is that it takes a bit of time during initial synchronization, especially after restarting the environment. This is a potential area of improvement. There's a synchronization time, but it takes time. Initially, when we start the first environment deployment, it starts synchronizing between the storage. So, it is taking time. One thing is that even when you restart. Let's assume that the synchronization is completed and the storage is synchronized. Both storages are fully synchronized, and it is in sync mode. Now, if we want to restart both nodes, there is a case for maintenance purposes. You took both nodes for maintenance, and we rebooted it. Then, it should not synchronize again. It should be a checksum. And if there is a checksum match, there should be no synchronization again. So, one thing that should be taken care of. Another thing is that I used freeware- the community version, free license, which we deployed using PowerShare. In that case, it was very difficult to bring back another node when one node was faulty. Let's assume that both the nodes are working fine. And we found one node faulty. And we destroyed all the volumes in that and tried to bring it back. So that was a difficult factor. The final solution is that we were not able to bring back the failed node. So, we reconstructed a new data source for that. That is another drawback. In future releases, I would like to see the integration with VMware or some other things as a plugin model for VMware.
Levent Ozdayi - PeerSpot reviewer
The best choice for performance and price
The primary use case for StorMagic SvSAN is providing availability to different sites. You can have multiple sites, all of which will replicate the data to each other StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic. It also provides configuration flexibility as it's fully…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Government
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Performing Arts
7%
Computer Software Company
19%
Retailer
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about StarWind Storage Appliance?
I would say data protection and easy management are the most valuable features of the product...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
What needs improvement with StarWind Storage Appliance?
StarWind Storage Appliance's demo version should be similar to the paid one.
What do you like most about StorMagic SvSAN?
It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?
It is a fair trade. It is a little bit expensive at first blush just in terms of the initial licensing cost. I have been in the tech industry for a long time. I have worked for startups, and I unde...
What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?
It could be a little bit more intuitive in terms of the way you set it up initially. The interface has recently undergone a revision. I have been using the new version for only a few weeks now. The...
 

Also Known As

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StorMagic
 

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Sample Customers

Bosch, EC2 IT, Solid Earth Inc., Canon
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