Dell Unity XT hybrid flash arrays are storage systems for running general purpose workloads that do not require the low latencies and speed of all flash/NVMe architectures. Unity XT hybrid flash arrays balance performance, efficiency, features or outcomes.
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Pure Storage FlashArray
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
Due the corporations history of using Dell solutions, Dell EMC Unity fit in perfectly with the corporations technology strategy. It also was comparable to other solutions in terms of performance and reliability. The support was also exceptional.
We were directed to buy these arrays and didn't have the ability to evaluate the other arrays. Once we evaluated the other products in the market that compete with Unity we saw that the younger, more built from the ground up arrays, had much better features, software, and ease …
Really the deduplication and compression ratio has been all over these guys. The speed on the flash storage seems more customized if I may say and our deployments were smooth. Nothing against these guys since we work with all at the same level, but there are very notable perks …
The ease of use was the best part. Even the more modern versions of Dell EMC still had the "old school" way of dealing with things. I did not need a Pure engineering team to come out and install the array like I would have needed with EMC.
The FlashArray is faster and easier to use than all the other products I've used. Other ones are close, but from our perspective, Pure won in every area.
FlashArray beat the Unity in every single test I made! The Test result for the Unity was so bad that EMC sent 7 technicians/salesmen to check our test results. Even with specialized firmware, they can't nearly reach the Result of the FlashArray.
Nimble storage could not be clustered like Pure, Simplivity was completely converged so if one aspect of the design was under-specified it would require a full new node, Netapp only offered clustering with a special cost licence, whereas with Pure all functionality upgrades are …
Pure Storage blew everyone else out of the water in terms of performance, ease of use and setup. Getting a PoC unit allowed us to fully test the array with our own workloads, and fully vet that it would stack up. No other provider was able to give us this comfort!
Our Unity 300F was horrible and had we even been able to POC it, it would have failed but it wasn't our call. EMC support used to be something to be proud of (think 2011 before the Dell purchase) but has become the butt of many MANY jokes. The PURE Storage system is better in …