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

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 ResourceAzure NetApp FilesBuurst SoftNAS
Number of Accounts per Azure Region10No Limit
Number of Capacity Pools per Account25No Limit
Number of Volumes per Subscription500No Limit
Number of Volumes per Capacity Pool500No Limit
Maximum # of Files (maxfiles) per Volume100 millionNo Limit
Number of Snapshots per Volume2552^64
Minimum Size of a Single Capacity Pool4 TiB1 GiB
Maximum Size of a Single Capacity Pool500 TiB2^27 TiB
(dependent on available disk capacity)
Minimum Size of a Single Volume100 GiB1 GiB
Maximum Size of a Single Volume100 TiB2^27 TiB
(dependent on available disk capacity)
Maximum Size of a Single File16 TiB16 EiB
Maximum Size of Directory Metadata in a Single Directory320 MBNo Limit

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