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NEC D3 series vs NetApp FAS Series comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

NEC D3 series
Ranking in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp FAS Series
Ranking in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
110
Ranking in other categories
Deduplication Software (4th), NAS (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) category, the mindshare of NEC D3 series is 1.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp FAS Series is 11.0%, down from 18.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp FAS Series11.0%
NEC D3 series1.8%
Other87.2%
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1369971 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good
We use this storage solution to host our ERP, CRM, file server, databases, and lots of other things The performance is better than with our previous version. We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio. We have had contract-related…
Srikanth Purushothaman - PeerSpot reviewer
DIRECTOR at Vellore Online Systems
Has supported long-term data protection and backup while requiring better part availability and pricing options
For monitoring purposes, we normally use flash access storage exclusively. We utilize a hybrid system because we need performance, combining NL-SAS for the volume and SAS flash to use as a fast cache system that provides more IOPS. We normally implement RAID 10, which we prefer over RAID 6's n plus 2 combinations. We utilize it for data redundancy, even with write intensity on. Regarding the unified storage architecture for NetApp FAS Series, we normally opt for exclusivity unless budget constraints exist. Our IOPS are very high, reaching somewhere about 50k to 150k or 1.150k. The high performance ensures minimal latency. An advantage we've seen with NetApp FAS Series is that snapshots provide very rapid backup and fast recovery. We basically use snapshots for data protection as first-level protection, with deduplication between the two storages serving as second-level protection.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Technical support from NEC is very good."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"It helps us meet all customer requirements. Customers have been using NetApp for many years. They are very satisfied with NetApp and continue to use NetApp and upgrade to new solutions."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The integration with cloud environments has benefited my customers' storage strategy by providing cloud volume ONTAP."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"The support is very good."
"We got everything we wanted with all the bells and whistles and all the features and functionalities."
"The solution is stable."
"The performance allows me to provide backend storage for large number of VMs and databases at a competitive price point."
 

Cons

"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"Integration with most of the third-party BR tools and a clear roadmap for next releases should be available."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"Migration from 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP need improvement. It seems NetApp didn't know how to solve the main problem of migrating data from an old OS (7-Mode ) to Clustered."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"Unified Monitoring v6.2 loses a bunch of functionality that previous versions had."
"I get caught in the upgrade matrix quite a bit, which is an indication that it hasn’t been tested."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is a one-time license charge for NetApp FAS Series to run and we pay annually for upgrades and support."
"The product's pricing is reasonable."
"We have considered upgrading to an All-Flash solution but when we evaluated the cost-benefit we discovered that we don't have enough money to invest in it. To maintain the same technology with All-Flash would be too expensive for us."
"It’s difficult for us to get money, so make sure you get everything in order, because there’s no going back and saying “oh, I missed this or that”, so make sure you plan well and well in advance."
"The pricing of NetApp FAS Series is reasonable for its performance."
"NetApp FAS Series' pricing is competitive."
"The licensing cost is on yearly basis."
"The price, compared to competitors, is quite high."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise38
Large Enterprise58
 

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Which SAN product would you choose: IBM FlashSystem (FS9500) vs PureFlash Array/X NVMe vs PureFlash Array/XL NVMe?
Have you considered a NetApp FAS Storage for your NAS needs? I am sure it fits very well.
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I do not handle the pricing part of NetApp FAS Series since it is managed by the sales team.
What needs improvement with NetApp FAS Series?
There is room for improvement when it comes to response time and first-level support quality. If a new feature needs to be added, it takes some time because it is altogether a new development; othe...
 

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