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StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

Score9 out of 10

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What is StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)?

StarWind SA helps organizations with fixed compute platforms meet storage performance and capacity growth requirements by providing them with high-performance and scalable storage covered by 24/7 support. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed to handle high-performance or unpredictable data growth. It serves storage as a single namespace to different environments via multiple uplink protocols: iSCSI, SMB3, NFS, including RDMA-capable iSER and SMB Direct. As an all-flash hyperconvergence specialized vendor, StarWind states they know exactly what customers look for in storage infrastructure solutions.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features StarWind Storage Appliance (SA) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 3 ratings of StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.1

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 9.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 9.7

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about StarWind Storage Appliance (SA).
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Powerful and affordable data transformation platform

Jessica HullView profile
Database Administrator in Professional Services at Ordina (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For storage and data transfer StarWind Storage Appliance has been the best solution. The GUI is flexible and easy to learn how it works. The deployment procedure takes a short time for full operation capacity. It shows the graphical display of data across all departments and the performance from all departments. It monitors all storage locations of our data and enhances security to any stored files.

Pros

  • Securing all workloads stored under its promises.
  • Secure file transfer network.

Cons

  • No room for improvement from my experience.
  • The product functionality capability has always been stable.

Return on Investment

  • There was immediate and positive ROI
  • The main deployment objectives have been achieved.

Starwind Storage is excellent value with outstanding support ofn a budget

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Very cost-effective. You choose the hardware.
  • Very reliable and performant.
  • Excellent proactive support. They call us when there is an issue.
  • Very flexible. Can mix and match spinning disk and SSD depending on capacity and performance needs.

Cons

  • Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive.

Return on Investment

  • It enabled us to upgrade our storage and switch from FC to iSCSI at a reasonable cost.
  • iSCSi is so much less expensive to maintain.
  • StarWind is upgradable and you never lose your investment.

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)