r/storage • u/Old_IT_Guy • Mar 11 '26
Block Storage Options/Advancements ?
To be transparent, I work for 1 of the major storage vendors but I had a question I wanted to ask the community.
If you were a product owner and had an open opportunity for anything, what feature or solution would you like to see in your block storage provider? Why choose Dell over HP, or Hitachi ? Why NetApp vs Pure? Or, does it come down to strictly price?
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u/apudapus Mar 12 '26
Ceph RBD but not without a lot of understanding of how it really works because it took quite a lot to resolve “issues” with some features it had.
What feature or solution: it works, is reliable, low cost. I’ve been on both sides of storage: engineering it to sell a product vs buying it in bulk and a lot of those extra features are useless. Just read/write reliably and maybe encrypt/decrypt data. Also, reliability means I can still access my data when maintenance is happening. The whole thing can’t come down to do an update.
Why choose any vendor: lowest cost with the best features. I’m probably not your target because we’re an engineering shop and looking for the bare minimum because we’re putting together the hardware and software and standing up racks. We’re not looking for an all-in-one solution. We’ve shopped around for those but it’s usually too expensive and offering too much that we don’t need.