Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: October 2024.
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.
Its technical support is excellent.
The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable.
The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing
It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions.
The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory.
The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure.