Storage Selector Tool

Block, file, object and scale-out storage, from enterprise arrays to business NAS, across the major OEMs.

Every specification is taken from the OEM's official website and links to the product page or datasheet it came from; anything the OEM does not publish is marked "to confirm", never assumed.

Size by workload: capacity today, growth and horizon, IOPS and throughput, read share, data reduction and snapshot reserve, with planning defaults for each workload type.

Set the latency target, drive failure tolerance, SAN fabric and port speeds, availability, replication (asynchronous, synchronous or active-active metro), encryption, immutability and the other data services you need.

Each model is scored on eleven weighted criteria and ends up Meets, Confirm or Short. Hard mismatches — not enough capacity, a missing protocol, disk where flash latency is needed — cap the fit.

The best fit overall and the best model from each OEM, with the raw capacity each one needs for the same data.

A full storage design in the OEM's own terms: drives and shelves, pools, LUNs and volumes, file systems, SMB shares and NFS exports, S3 buckets, host groups, snapshot and replication policies, and a bill of materials.

Compare up to six models side by side, criterion by criterion and spec by spec, with the best value in every row highlighted and a recommended winner.

A logical design and an implementation design — rack elevation, cabling, drives and pools, IP plan and zoning, and the build order.

Exports are real Office files — a Word design document, a PowerPoint deck with editable tables, and an Excel workbook with the layout, the ranking and the full catalogue — each with both diagrams embedded.

Use it as a guest to size and compare; sign in with your niyyasoft.com account to save designs and download Word, PowerPoint, Excel and diagram files.