Why Azure SoftNAS over NetApp Files?
Capacity savings up to 80% on storage expenses
Buurst SoftNAS on Azure is a proven storage technology offering enterprise customers a capacity savings of up to 80% on storage expenses while offering high performance and data security. The chart below highlights our extensive default feature set in comparison to a competitor.
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| 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 (dependant 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 (dependant 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 |