Opinions on NetCDF vs HDF5 for storing scientific data?

Question

Anyone out there have enough experience w/ NetCDF and HDF5 to give some pluses / minuses about them as a way of storing scientific data?

I\'ve used HDF5 and would like

Answer 1

NetCDF, starting with version 4.0 (2008) can read and write most HDF5 files, and provides access to the hierarchical features of HDF5 via the enhanced data model.

HDF5 is extremely feature-rich, and has some great performance features.

NetCDF has a simpler API, and a much wider tool base. There are many tools that handle netCDF data.