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Qumulo vs StarWind Storage Appliance comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 7, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.1
Organizations found significant ROI with Qumulo through cost savings, easy scalability, and strong competitiveness against Isilon and NetApp.
Sentiment score
6.0
StarWind Storage Appliance users saw reduced costs, improved performance, and increased efficiency, with easy scalability and high reliability.
Qumulo is a revenue competitor with Isilon, NetApp, Ampere Stewart, and PowerScale, so this is HP's purchase to compete with those particular companies.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The capabilities for handling high throughput unstructured workloads and executing petabyte-scale migrations are paramount for media and entertainment or healthcare, where they can reduce the burden of long nights spent on migrations.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
We have seen a return on investment in the reduction of storage administration effort.
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.6
Qumulo's 24/7 customer service is highly rated for reliability, expertise, and accessible direct engineer support, with minor delays for low priority issues.
Sentiment score
9.0
StarWind Storage Appliance customer service is praised for 24x7 troubleshooting, professionalism, high technical support ratings, and helpful videos.
These professionals possess deep expertise in cloud deployments and NAS migrations, ensuring that I am speaking with knowledgeable individuals.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
I would rate their technical support as a ten, as they are very quick to respond.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Qumulo customer support is the best.
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Qumulo excels in scalability, providing seamless expansion and performance enhancement, making it ideal for media, entertainment, and healthcare sectors.
Sentiment score
7.5
StarWind Storage Appliance is scalable, adaptable, hardware-independent, supports unlimited storage, and is effective in standalone and hyperconverged environments.
This linear scale allows for multi-petabyte workloads, which is essential for both media and entertainment as well as healthcare's image management.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The platform handles growth with minimal disruptions.
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It is really scalable and easy to use for our end users.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Qumulo is praised for its exceptional stability and reliability, receiving high ratings and fostering confidence for future growth.
Sentiment score
8.9
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for stability, robust performance, and high user ratings, especially on well-maintained Windows OS.
I can confidently say it is highly stable.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
I would rate the stability of Qumulo as a nine.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
 

Room For Improvement

Users want Qumulo to improve uptime, interface, UNIX commands, licensing, automation, cloud integrations, and offer better data protection.
StarWind Storage Appliance requires improved integration, easier setup, better insights, and feature parity between demo and paid versions.
Overall, it is a solid tool that works very well on-premises and in cloud environments.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Qumulo can be improved with more competitive licensing and pricing, enhanced historical analytics, and additional automation capabilities using APIs.
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Qumulo offers competitive pricing with straightforward licensing, considered good value and supported by helpful vendor assistance.
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its affordability, straightforward licensing, and excellent value compared to competitors for SMEs.
The pricing setup cost and everything was the lowest compared to other competitors.
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The pricing is on the premium side.
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Qumulo offers efficient file sharing, scaling, management, and analytics, enhancing data storage for healthcare and media with cloud integration.
StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its user-friendly interface, high performance, reliability, excellent support, affordability, and robust data protection.
The most valuable feature in Qumulo is the scaling feature, as Qumulo file data platform is optimized for scale, so we could support petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by simplifying storage management while providing a single, scalable platform, reducing administrative efforts, making storage growth easier to manage, and allowing users to experience consistent performance.
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
They are easy to reach, and you can send them a Slack message with Level 3 engineers available to help you within seconds.
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Qumulo
Ranking in NAS
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
File and Object Storage (12th)
StarWind Storage Appliance
Ranking in NAS
20th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (34th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Qumulo is 4.2%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StarWind Storage Appliance is 1.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NAS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qumulo4.2%
StarWind Storage Appliance1.9%
Other93.9%
NAS
 

Featured Reviews

Esther Sultaana - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Unified file platform has delivered secure multi‑protocol access for massive data growth
The creators of Qumulo were the ones who created Isilon, and I had a conversation with them, so any of the features within Isilon may need tweaking, but I think they resolved it here. In the year that I worked with it, I did not see anything that I had an issue with. The security is great, and it works with cloud technologies, being a hands-based tool, so you can use it with AWS or Microsoft Azure. It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection. The management and program layer is made up of three capabilities: API, the command line, and a visual interface. In the year that I worked with it and brought it in, I think it has been effective. The only thing I would like to see added to Qumulo is for the interface to improve visually, more in line with vCenter, but that is just my thought. Overall, I appreciate it.
Kishore CA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Assistant at Bharat Electronics Limited
Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes.
The only drawback is that it takes a bit of time during initial synchronization, especially after restarting the environment. This is a potential area of improvement. There's a synchronization time, but it takes time. Initially, when we start the first environment deployment, it starts synchronizing between the storage. So, it is taking time. One thing is that even when you restart. Let's assume that the synchronization is completed and the storage is synchronized. Both storages are fully synchronized, and it is in sync mode. Now, if we want to restart both nodes, there is a case for maintenance purposes. You took both nodes for maintenance, and we rebooted it. Then, it should not synchronize again. It should be a checksum. And if there is a checksum match, there should be no synchronization again. So, one thing that should be taken care of. Another thing is that I used freeware- the community version, free license, which we deployed using PowerShare. In that case, it was very difficult to bring back another node when one node was faulty. Let's assume that both the nodes are working fine. And we found one node faulty. And we destroyed all the volumes in that and tried to bring it back. So that was a difficult factor. The final solution is that we were not able to bring back the failed node. So, we reconstructed a new data source for that. That is another drawback. In future releases, I would like to see the integration with VMware or some other things as a plugin model for VMware.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Transportation Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Qumulo?
Although Qumulo has been around for several years and I think they have a very good product, I cannot think of anything offhand that needs improvement. I appreciate that I can use it to check wheth...
What is your primary use case for Qumulo?
My main use case for Qumulo is primarily in healthcare imaging and media entertainment. It is the file-heavy workload for enterprises, and it is used extensively in healthcare. One of the companies...
What advice do you have for others considering Qumulo?
I believe Qumulo is great for a storage engineer because it allows me to validate migration throughput, which is part of the real-time analytics. That helps considerably during migrations. I freque...
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Sample Customers

County of Riverside Sheriff Department, Hyundai Mobis Automotive North America, University of Arizona, UCSD - San Diego Supercomputer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Sinclair Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Kaiser Permanente, Deluxe Creative, Vexcel Imaging, University of Florida, The Madison Square Garden Company, Arizona State University, Cinesite, San Diego Padres Baseball, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, IHME, EllieMae, Washington State University.
Bosch, EC2 IT, Solid Earth Inc., Canon
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