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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.
Current available models include:
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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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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February 13, 2019
Simplicity/Performance and trust
I have Test:
- Dell/EMC unity (Complecity in administration (Need to have an expert for control the array and COST)
- Nimble Storage ( Quality of storage Array, i find swrew in the array)
- Dell Compellent (Poor performance)
- Dell/EMC unity (Complecity in administration (Need to have an expert for control the array and COST)
- Nimble Storage ( Quality of storage Array, i find swrew in the array)
- Dell Compellent (Poor performance)
February 08, 2019
Feel Freedom and confident with Purestorage
The 3D array is a big diference, the compression and deduplication are better, also the Active Cluster is included in price. The price is very competitive.
February 07, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray with VDI workloads
Better data reduction and sub ms latency with VDI workloads
February 04, 2019
PureStorage has storaged all the competitors
We choose Pure storage FlashArray over all of these competitors because we found better Performance, Price, and Support.
February 01, 2019
Rock Solid, Crazy Fast, and Pays For Itself
Tops, hands down in my book. Netapp's support is expensive, Dell/EMC licensing was prohibitively pricey. Nimble was probably the closest contender, and we did think long and hard about going with a technology we felt "more familiar with" (i.e. hybrid storage with spinning disks as part of the solution still), but we decided that while Pure Storage FlashArray was more expensive, we'd stand to gain a lot more from that slightly higher price tag.
January 25, 2019
Storage that just goes.
There's not much comparison to be done, features, TCO, and raw speed are all on Pure's side initially, and in use reliability becomes a glaring benefit. We've never had a storage outage with Pure, I can't say the same for any storage I've ever used previously.
January 25, 2019
Pure is purely awesome - Just try it and you will see
I have used EMC, Dell Compellent and Nimble arrays in the enterprise space. Pure is the most simple to deploy, use and manage by far and the performance is fantastic.
January 25, 2019
FlashArray for the Performance Oriented.
We haven't tested other pure NVMe devices, but the aging hardware we replace (Tegile, NetApp) all exhibited much higher failure rates and much more difficult support interactions. A certain company actually sent us a 'parts box' with almost enough equipment to completely build another array - and they said this was standard practice! To lack such confidence in your hardware to do something like that did not inspire confidence in us. From a performance level, any comparison would be unfair as they were using spinning platters rather than solid state NVMe.
January 24, 2019
Pure Gold
- HPE Nimble Storage, HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube), NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Dell EMC Unity
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 included as long as you remain in support, and Dell EMC could not compete with an all-flash solution.
January 23, 2019
Don't drink the kool aid
When we did a POC with Pure and Nimble we found the Pure to perform better with the same exact configuration and workload. We have traditionally been an EMC shop and we were hit with a massive EMC renewal at year three where it made it very compelling to get into something with a well defined cost for support. Based on the performance and Evergreen we moved forward with Pure. Additionally, Pure priced themselves significantly cheaper then Nimble to get in the door.
January 10, 2019
Another happy customer with Pure Storage
January 10, 2019
Flash Array delivers storage space and new opportunities!
Dell EMC Unity is a great hardware alternative, but, in our analysis, did not provide the 3:1 data reduction we aimed for.
January 08, 2019
Very happy with our FlashArray
We compared this unit directly against the EMC XtremIO array. We selected Pure for a number of reasons. The points where Pure really stood out were the method of scaling/ ease of additional hardware updates, single SKU licensing, Evergreen upgrades and built-in replication. Upgrades and replication are two that really stand out for us.
With EMC, to add more disk we would have had to add more bricks which could result in downtime. With Pure Storage, they can add a shelf and configure it in less time than it takes to remove it from the box. Replication was also a big factor. With Pure Storage, it's built in with no extra cost. EMC would have required us to also buy Recoverpoint which would have almost tripled the initial buy-in.
With EMC, to add more disk we would have had to add more bricks which could result in downtime. With Pure Storage, they can add a shelf and configure it in less time than it takes to remove it from the box. Replication was also a big factor. With Pure Storage, it's built in with no extra cost. EMC would have required us to also buy Recoverpoint which would have almost tripled the initial buy-in.
January 08, 2019
Pure is a no-brainer choice for storage.
No comparison to Pure Storage!
January 08, 2019
Pure Storage is a solid performer!
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!
January 07, 2019
I Love My Pure!!!!!
There is no comparison, Pure is superior.
We selected Pure because they were able to deliver on everything they had promised and more.
We selected Pure because they were able to deliver on everything they had promised and more.
December 27, 2018
Excellent storage solution
Excellent performance. Competitive price. Superior support. Simplicity of management
December 14, 2018
Pure from the beginning and for the foreseeable future.
Nimble is good for a mixed workload, but at the time it didn't have an all flash offering. Now there is no advantage to a rip and replace. They were the first into the hybrid space which was good for SMB, but didn't work at the enterprise level.
December 12, 2018
Very happy customer - would recommend Pure Storage if needed for high performance applications
December 12, 2018
Pure Storage FlashArray - You Can't Go Wrong!
The ease of use and snapshot technologies were a big plus for the Pure Storage FlashArray.
December 11, 2018
Quick and easy!
December 11, 2018
Nothing is more expensive than regret, and you will NOT regret this!
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 every way but mostly just because it actually does what they say it will and does it better than you think is possible.
December 11, 2018
Great product, great team - you won't be disappointed.
- HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)
Not even close. We had a huge huge problem with HP. We spent a long time and a lot of money trying to implement their solution, to no avail. Took forever to get to the root cause. The support we interacted with was atrocious. We were on the phone for so long they had to switch techs, and had to go through the same questions again. In the end we finally got to Pure, and haven't looked back.
December 11, 2018
Great Product and Company!
The NetApp was extremely difficult to setup and it is a full time job just to learn and maintain it
December 07, 2018
It's really as good as they say!
Pure wins easily with ease of use and predictable pricing against all competitors we reviewed.