All flash storage for all-round workload
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
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- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage FlashArray is available in tow models: FlashArray//C is an all-QLC flash array thatdelivers the NVMe performance, hyper-consolidation, and simplified management. FlashArray//X is all-flash, 100% software-driven, and 100% NVMe storage optimized for corporate and enterprise environments.
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Current available models include:
- FlashArray//XL - Can be used to run everything from massive databases to cloud-native applications with faster transactions and more responsive customer experiences with enterprise availability and disaster protection. FlashArray//XL is designed to give businesses the freedom to innovate without storage as a constraint.
- FlashArray//X - Unified block and file storage designed to be easy to use but also powerful. Used to accelerate everything from Tier 1 databases to large-scale virtualized and cloud-native apps, with a non-disruptive upgrade path.
- FlashArray//C - Designed to provide a home to business-critical workloads and data, with 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and consistent single-millisecond latency.
- FlashArray//E - Designed to deliver simplicity and efficiency of flash for all file and block data repositories, from content libraries to backup sets to active archives. Released in June of 2023, FlashArray//E are offered to expand customers’ options to tackle data growth down to 1PB without the need for frustrating offline archives or expanding expensive disk systems.
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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF A-Series, and HPE Nimble Storage are common alternatives for Pure Storage FlashArray.
Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance and Non-Intrusive Upgrades and Simplicity highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Pure Storage FlashArray are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- Business Problems Solved
Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users have experienced a significant increase in speed and improved data handling by replacing their existing storage with Pure Storage FlashArray. With its high-speed, reliable block storage capabilities, the array has been effective in supporting performance-sensitive workloads and unifying different storage technologies and manufacturers. Organizations have utilized Pure Storage FlashArray to house virtual infrastructure environments, resulting in great compression rates and easy setup of replications. It has also served as a primary SAN for virtualized environments, improving performance and supporting various departments. Furthermore, the array has proven effective in handling batch job performance, reducing job times from hours to minutes and increasing overall productivity. In addition, by running mission-critical applications on Pure Storage FlashArray, users have experienced noticeable performance increases. The array's ability to handle thousands of VMs while providing primary storage and data protection through replication has made it a valuable asset in large-scale environments. Pure Storage FlashArray has also been deployed across multiple data centers to address performance, capacity, and data security needs. Its simplicity of administration, patching, and upgrading processes has earned user satisfaction. Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has addressed crucial storage challenges for organizations by providing high-speed storage, easy management, scalability, and improved performance for a wide range of workloads.
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January 04, 2024
All flash storage for all-round workload
I think it is easy to choose between all of competitor. At that time, only Pure Storage FlashArray gave us warranty for right-sized, where they guarantee that if the capacity is less than we agreed then they provide additional storage at no cost.
August 30, 2021
Pure Flash always gets you there in time
- IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, Dell EMC Unity, Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent), Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage and HPE Nimble Storage
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 when talking about Pure Storage FlashArray.
June 21, 2021
Orange is Pure and Pure is Pure :-)
It was a very tight call before finalizing the solution. Since Pure Storage FlashArray was able to offer the best deal and the kind of relationship the pure engineer maintained with us during the entire POC journey made them unique compared with the other vendors and I strongly believe that is a winning situation for Pure Storage FlashArray.
June 15, 2021
Pure offers the best-in-class all-flash storage array with ease of uses and hands off management that you need
Pure Storage FlashArray came up as being the most cost-effective of the lot plus the extras added like call-home support were very welcome. The competitors' options were a lot more expensive and the call-home support added a lot more to the already high costs.
The Pure Storage FlashArray blows any other array I've used out of the water. We had an investment in EqualLogic and purchased an all-flash array. A couple of years later and with many performance issues, we purchased our first Pure Storage array and the difference was amazing. All our performance issues were gone. I've considered other vendors over the years since and no one has been able to get close to the features that Pure offers.
June 08, 2021
Pure Storage review
We had an outage on EMC Unity because of one of its bugs and also its simplicity and performance is not as good as Pure Storage.
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We tested against HPE Hybrid SANs, which were very nice as well. In the end, Pure Storage FlashArray was a better fit since we were going to be replicating to a DR location.
Score 10 out of 10
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- DDN IntelliFlash (formerly Tegile, from Western Digital), Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe and Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent)
[They] seemed to have all the right things in place for our environment. A bit costly up front, but good return on less stress, better performance and good support whenever we do have issues.
As a government organization, we cannot just choose a specific product for purchase, so Pure FlashArray was one of the participants that was able to meet the needs of the purchasing process. In proof of concept it proved simpler and more versatile than the HPE solution in the circumstances of our environment.
April 01, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
I believe that Pure has set itself way ahead of its competition in the storage market, you could probably find something faster but it will lack in ease of use. You could pay less for something but it will lack a key feature that Pure offers. It is hard to find something like Pure!
March 30, 2021
Orange is the new Flash
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.
March 26, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
Comparable performance to nimble. The reason we selected Pure Storage for our ERP storage is that other companies in our field have had success with implementing it in AIX.
March 26, 2021
Pure Storage is simple to use, implement and manage.
- Nimble
At the time, Array had more feature-rich monitoring software that enabled you to see per-VM performance metrics of machines running on your array. Pure has since introduced similar reporting. Pure continues to innovate and provide the features that competitors are offering, providing less and less reason to look at the competition. Plus, Pure arrays are all flash and not a hybrid, or built around a hybrid model, or with flash support simply tacked on.
March 25, 2021
5 years with Pure Storage FlashArray
We initially evaluated NetApp EF-series and EMC XtremeIO arrays against the Pure FlashArray. The NetApp array was low cost but lacked many of the features of the other two arrays. XtremeIO was more expensive than the Pure FlashArray solution, did not perform as well on data reduction, and required additional components to match some of the Pure features.
March 25, 2021
Pure Storage Flash in a Flash
In a market with various storage vendors like NetApp, IBM, EMC, HDS, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, Pure Storage has key areas of advantage in the simplicity of configuration and use, online and non-disruptive way to scale array performance, reliability and performance, and a competitive cost point. Very good customer support and a collaborative team.
March 24, 2021
Pure Storage Flash Array for the Win
Pure Storage is cheaper to run and maintain, much simpler to manage, and outperforms the competition.
March 24, 2021
Ultra Fast Array with Simple UI
Pure Storage offers better support plans, simple UI and easy upgrade options. It can be more pricey but, you get what you pay for and Pure is very competitive when it comes to pricing for features/value. Win-Win-Win!
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage is a leader in the all flash array market.
- Tegile and Nimble
Pure blows these other arrays out of the water, there is no comparison at all. Pure is clearly the leader in this market. The other 2 arrays do not perform up to the same standards as the Pure.
March 23, 2021
My Pure Storage Experience
We reviewed Dell EMC and said no because of spin drives, hard upgrades. NetApp was not easy enough to use.
Pure Storage was easy of use, had reliability, evergreen, and we got much more in productivity than we could even imagine at the time.
Pure Storage was easy of use, had reliability, evergreen, and we got much more in productivity than we could even imagine at the time.
March 23, 2021
PURE PODs - not just for eating
EMC VPLEX is what we have compared to Active Cluster. Pure outperforms EMC in spied, dedupe and overall cost.
NetApp has a lot of issues. Its software is clunky and complicated. It wastes much capacity in the storage operating system. It doesn't do deduplication and compression that well and takes a CPU hit when it does. And all-flash storage was never really an option. At just about every level, we were tired of NetApp and have since become used to the simplicity and performance of Pure.
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray.. Its time to get on board
- IBM XIV, HPE EVA P6000 (Discontinued), HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, IBM FlashSystem and XtremIO Flash Storage
It's faster and more affordable.
- Dell Equallogic and Compellent
- Dell EMC VMAX
- HPE 3Par
March 23, 2021
Why Pure Storage FlashArray Should Be Your #1 Choice!
We have talked to other vendors, but have not even gotten to the point where we think someone else has a viable solution to make us replace our Pure FlashArray. There might be faster storage, there might be cheaper storage, there might be easier storage, but there is nothing that is as complete. End of story!
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage Flash Array
- Western Digital IntelliFlash (Tegile) and HPE EVA P6000 (Discontinued)
Cheaper ROI and faster performance