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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
6.8
Qumulo enhances productivity and user satisfaction by simplifying file management, increasing uptime, and optimizing workloads across industries.
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
8.9
Qumulo customer service is praised for 24/7 availability, responsiveness, expertise in cloud and NAS, and effective issue resolution.
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 rate customer support for Qumulo as excellent, giving it a 10 for its top-tier service in response, resolution, and overall attention to customer needs.
Computing Junior at a media company with 1-10 employees
I would rate Qumulo's tech support as a 9 out of 10.
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Qumulo is highly scalable, efficient for large data environments, enhancing performance without disruptions, popular in media 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
It is really scalable and easy to use for our end users.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Scalability is one of the strongest features.
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Qumulo is highly stable with minor performance issues mainly due to workload management, earning strong user confidence.
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
A lot of performance issues also depend on how the workload is handled.
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express
I would rate the stability of Qumulo as a nine.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
 

Room For Improvement

Qumulo users seek automation, API integrations, non-disruptive upgrades, UI enhancements, compatibility fixes, and pricing adjustments for improved performance.
StarWind Storage Appliance requires improved integration, easier setup, better insights, and feature parity between demo and paid versions.
It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Overall, it is a solid tool that works very well on-premises and in cloud environments.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
If we get into an issue, hardware says, 'Talk to software, Qumulo,' and Qumulo says, 'Talk to Dell.'
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find Qumulo's pricing reasonable, valuing its straightforward licensing, competitive setup costs, and satisfactory 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
Pricing is expensive; that was the one thing, but it is an industry standard in the animation industry or film industry.
Manager of IT Corporate Software at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

Qumulo provides scalable, secure file sharing with real-time analytics, easy management, and seamless integration with cloud platforms.
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
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
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
 

Categories and Ranking

Qumulo
Ranking in NAS
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
File and Object Storage (10th)
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 (35th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Qumulo is 3.6%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StarWind Storage Appliance is 1.9%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NAS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qumulo3.6%
StarWind Storage Appliance1.9%
Other94.5%
NAS
 

Featured Reviews

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Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express
Unified file workloads have powered AI and ML projects and deliver flexible data growth
The key differences, both pros and cons of Qumulo in comparison to other technologies are that I have outlined quite a lot of pros, while the cons I can see include some challenges between the software and hardware. We have hardware that is from Dell, and software from Qumulo, so sometimes there is a synchronization issue. If we get into an issue, hardware says, 'Talk to software, Qumulo,' and Qumulo says, 'Talk to Dell.' There is this bit of a mismatch, and I think Dell and Qumulo, or probably some other hardware vendors like Intel or HP, should have more collaborative relations so users do not end up having a lot of issues. Another thing is that I think the UI sometimes has issues during the upgrade. We immediately open an incident, and then engineers are assigned. These small issues can be considered as cons. There are no missing features in Qumulo that I would like to see included.
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
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
University
7%
Comms Service Provider
17%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Construction Company
14%
Transportation Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Qumulo?
Qumulo can be improved but not necessarily; it was fairly smooth to set up, and the support is great and easy to manage. Regarding Qumulo's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are ...
What is your primary use case for Qumulo?
My main use case for Qumulo is asset data storage. When I was working at Mercury Filmworks, we used Qumulo to store our digital assets that artists work on, so people both ways retrieve assets, wor...
What advice do you have for others considering Qumulo?
I would rate Qumulo a nine on a scale of 1 to 10. I rate it a nine because the cost is what keeps it from being a ten; it is an expensive solution, but if you do have the funds to acquire Qumulo st...
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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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