| FAS2050 (dual controllers) |
OVERALL RATING |
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 Company: NetApp
Cost: $69,960**
Pros: Among highest performance in our tests; NAS and SAN features; heavy enterprise feature set; built-in high-availability capabilities;
good snapshot agent support; expandable.
Con: Very poor management interface needs revamp; two controllers separately managed. |
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| StorageCenter |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: Compellent Technologies
Cost: $68,800
Pros: Very expandable; outstanding management interface; data migration feature reduces management costs; flexible snapshot features.
Cons: Low space efficiency; high availability requires completely separate controller. |
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| StorageWorks 2012i Modular Smart Array |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: HP
Cost: $12,887
Pro: Mixes SAS and SATA drives in same chassis; easy expandability; above-average management toolset; built-in HA capabilities.
Con: MPIO setup requires manual intervention; SATA performance poor. |
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| PS5000XV |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: Dell
Cost: $55,000
Pro: Heavy set of enterprise features; among highest performance in our tests; built-in HA capabilities; easy expansion into cluster.
Cons: Weak reporting features. |
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| NSM 2120 Storage Node |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: LeftHand Networks
Cost: $$96,000*
Pro: Easy expansion and scalability; among highest performance in our tests; easy configuration for iSCSI initiators.
Cons: Management model restrictive; high price for minimum high-availability configuration. |
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| Storage Concentrator |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: StoneFly
Cost: $$26,436****
Pro: Very good performance for SATA-based system; simple GUI; good performance for SATA-based system; expandable with additional
disk shelves over Fibre Channel; simple GUI.
Cons: Unmanaged external arrays. |
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| NSS-S12 |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: FalconStor Software
Cost: $43,000
Pro: Strong snapshot agent support; strong replication feature set.
Cons: No expansion capabilities; poor integration between RAID controller and rest of system. |
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| 9240 Unified Storage Gateway |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: Reldata
Cost: $43,907
Pro: Excellent technical support; good security design; very expandable.
Cons: Poorly designed GUI hard to use and buggy; unmanaged external arrays; no snapshot agent support. |
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| EzSANFiler XD34S |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: Celeros
Cost: $15,825
Pro: NAS and SAN capabilities; mixes SAS and SATA drives in same chassis; easy networking; expandable.
Cons: iSCSI target configuration convoluted; no snapshot agent support; no HA capability; bad documentation. |
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| NetCOR 7500 |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: Kano
Cost: $13,447
Pro: Built-in HA capabilities; six GigE ports per controller; easy expansion with mix of SATA and SAS drives.
Cons: Limited snapshot features; no replication features. |
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| DSN-3200-10 |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: D-Link
Cost: $12,475***
Pro: Lowest cost per gigabyte; offers eight Gigabit Ethernet data ports.
Cons: Technical support level unacceptable; no HA capability; no snapshot capabilities; no expansion option. |
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| SATABeast |
OVERALL RATING |
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Company: Nexsan Technologies
Cost: $67,500
Pro: Incredibly high density; fastest management in this test; very good performance for SATA-based system; built-in high-availability
capabilities.
Cons: Poor security model; no replication or snapshots; high-availability not transparent. |
* Quantity: three ** Includes dual controllers *** Includes 15 user-added 1TB disks **** Includes DNF FS 16F Array |
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| SCORECARD |
Interop-erability |
Data Protection |
Enterprise features |
Mgmt. |
Performance |
Green |
Final Score |
|
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
15% |
5% |
|
| NetApp |
5 |
5 |
4.5 |
2 |
5 |
3.5 |
4.2 |
| Compellent Technologies |
3.75 |
4.5 |
4 |
4.5 |
3.5 |
3.5 |
4.1 |
| HP |
4.25 |
3.5 |
5 |
3.5 |
4 |
4 |
4.1 |
| Dell |
4.25 |
3.5 |
4.5 |
3.5 |
4.5 |
3.5 |
4 |
| LeftHand Networks |
5 |
4.0 |
3.5 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
| StoneFly |
5 |
4.0 |
4.5 |
2 |
4 |
3.5 |
3.9 |
| FalconStor Software |
4.5 |
4.5 |
3 |
2 |
4.5 |
4 |
3.7 |
| Reldata |
5 |
3.5 |
4 |
2 |
3.5 |
3 |
3.6 |
| Celeros |
4.5 |
2.5 |
3 |
3 |
3.5 |
4 |
3.3 |
| Kano Technologies |
4.75 |
3 |
3.5 | | |
