Company:NetApp• www.netapp.comCost: $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.
StorageCenter
OVERALL RATING
4.1
Company: Compellent Technologies • www.compellent.comCost: $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.
StorageWorks 2012i Modular Smart Array
OVERALL RATING
4.1
Company: HP • www.hp.comCost: $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.
PS5000XV
OVERALL RATING
4.0
Company: Dell • www.dell.com/equallogicCost: $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.
NSM 2120 Storage Node
OVERALL RATING
3.9
Company: LeftHand Networks • www.lefthandnetworks.comCost: $$96,000* Pro: Easy expansion and scalability; among highest performance in our tests; easy configuration for iSCSI initiators. Cons: Management model restrictive; high price for minimum high-availability configuration.
Storage Concentrator
OVERALL RATING
3.9
Company: StoneFly • www.stonefly.comCost: $$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.
NSS-S12
OVERALL RATING
3.7
Company: FalconStor Software • www.falconstor.comCost: $43,000 Pro: Strong snapshot agent support; strong replication feature set. Cons: No expansion capabilities; poor integration between RAID controller and rest of system.
9240 Unified Storage Gateway
OVERALL RATING
3.6
Company: Reldata • www.reldata.comCost: $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.
EzSANFiler XD34S
OVERALL RATING
3.3
Company: Celeros • www.celeros.comCost: $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.
NetCOR 7500
OVERALL RATING
3.3
Company: Kano • www.kanotechnologies.comCost: $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.
DSN-3200-10
OVERALL RATING
3.1
Company: D-Link • www.dlink.comCost: $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.
SATABeast
OVERALL RATING
3.1
Company: Nexsan Technologies • www.nexsan.comCost: $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
Company:NetApp•