Why SoftNAS over Azure NetApp Files?
Capacity savings up to 65% on storage expenses over Azure NetApp Files
Buurst SoftNAS on Azure is a proven storage technology offering enterprise customers a capacity savings of up to 65% on storage expenses while offering high performance and data security. The chart below highlights our extensive default feature set in comparison to a competitor.
Azure NetApp Files VS Buurst SoftNAS 400
- Price compare is based on a per year amount
- Price is based on list price Q2 2021
- Price compare does not factor in data tiering as Azure NetApp Files does not support this feature
- Price amounts do not account for data compression or data deduplication
- Azure NetApp Files max support is 100TB in a single volume
- SoftNAS max support is 1.2PB on Azure
| Default Resource | Azure NetApp Files | Buurst SoftNAS |
| Number of Accounts per Azure Region | 10 | No Limit |
| Number of Capacity Pools per Account | 25 | No Limit |
| Number of Volumes per Subscription | 500 | No Limit |
| Number of Volumes per Capacity Pool | 500 | No Limit |
| Maximum # of Files (maxfiles) per Volume | 100 million | No Limit |
| Number of Snapshots per Volume | 255 | 2^64 |
| Minimum Size of a Single Capacity Pool | 4 TiB | 1 GiB |
| Maximum Size of a Single Capacity Pool | 500 TiB | 2^27 TiB (dependent on available disk capacity) |
| Minimum Size of a Single Volume | 100 GiB | 1 GiB |
| Maximum Size of a Single Volume | 100 TiB | 2^27 TiB (dependent on available disk capacity) |
| Maximum Size of a Single File | 16 TiB | 16 EiB |
| Maximum Size of Directory Metadata in a Single Directory | 320 MB | No Limit |