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.
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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March 23, 2021
PURELY Positive
March 12, 2021
Fast Storage with Active-Active Cluster
There was no Active-Active cluster. Perhaps now there is one.
December 02, 2020
Pure reliability, pure simplicity, Pure Storage
The feature set at the given price point was unbeatable. From a performance perspective, NetApp and Nimble were comparable, but with having a first-hand case study in the form of a trusted colleague who vouched for the reliability and performance, the decision to go with Pure Storage was easy to make.
October 26, 2020
Pure storage, great value, fast storage, no headaches.
Score 10 out of 10
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- EMC VNX (Discontinued) and NetApp FAS series
Pure Storage stands head and shoulders above their competition. Not only is performance and usable capacity better and faster respectively, but the predictable support costs also make this a "no-brainer." Having used other storage arrays, from setup to support, Pure is by far the easiest, fastest, and most reliable storage I have found. The team that sells and supports their products have been great, proactive, and best of all not pushy. I wish I had taken a closer look when they first came on the market.
HP, NetApp, and EMC
August 17, 2020
Fast and easy to manage
- EMC VNX (Discontinued)
Pure storage was cheaper and faster.
August 12, 2020
Pure Storage is Pure Simplicity and Pure Bliss
Pure Storage had a much simpler interface and the dedupe and compression was better than all the other products we considered. Other vendors we looked at were Dell, Nimble, Tegile, and a few others I can't remember the names of.
June 25, 2020
The Superior Solution
It beats them hands down on everything. It is faster with better compressions and dedup. Management is at the next level - not legacy at all. Upgrades are easier. Getting a unit online and working was faster, as was expanding storage. vCenter plug-in's are easier to use and rock solid vVOL support.
When updating the software with NetApp it is a pain staking process since you have several components to update (Controllers, Hard Drives, RLM, Shelves, etc.). During the upgrades you also have to bring your CPU and disk utilization down to 50% before you can perform the upgrades. This forces us to shut down servers to decrease the utilization. Pure Storage makes it so simple since the technical support teams schedule the upgrades with us and then do them for us! This requires no shutting down of servers and also we will never lose any performance on the controllers during an upgrade.
May 27, 2020
A Pure pleasure to use!
- HPE Nimble Storage and Dell EMC ECS (formerly Atmos)
Performance and the guarantee were the main reasons to replace and move away from the other storage vendor. We looked at EMC, Netapp, HP all products owned within the company, and went with Pure, we went with it because of the simplicity of administration.
Since we have owned the our FlashArray the company (sorry some poor fool in the company) purchased an array from one of those vendors listed above, having used both systems, the FlashArray has a much simpler(cleaner and easier to understand) user interface, and has been bullet proof. Support wise I have 100% more confidence in the Pure support (both have similar support) - and have this feeling, I would have to discover the issue from that other vendor, rather than with the Pure receiving proactive notifications.
Since we have owned the our FlashArray the company (sorry some poor fool in the company) purchased an array from one of those vendors listed above, having used both systems, the FlashArray has a much simpler(cleaner and easier to understand) user interface, and has been bullet proof. Support wise I have 100% more confidence in the Pure support (both have similar support) - and have this feeling, I would have to discover the issue from that other vendor, rather than with the Pure receiving proactive notifications.
May 26, 2020
Pure Storage: A Simplified Effective Flash Array
Again, we did our research and did our consultations. We conducted a POC, which guaranteed storage controller upgrades at the cost of maintenance and numbers that we could budget for. Simplicity.
May 25, 2020
Very happy end user!
Speed of Pure Storage FlashArray looked better than Hitachi, and support was available through DSC (a local company).
May 23, 2020
VDI Game Changer
We had our IBM Storwize actually crash on us with the IO we had on it. The Pure Storage unit has 3 times the amount of IO on it without an issue that's why we went with Pure Storage.
We have a vast number of arrays from all the big storage manufacturers. The Pure FlashArray is probably my most favourite for its ease of use and resilience.
May 22, 2020
Pure Storage is purely awesome!
All of the major competitors did not perform as fast nor were as easy to maintain and administrate.
May 22, 2020
Pure Storage FlashArray makes me happy
They all came late to the Flash game and are struggling to keep up. Colleagues I talked to at the beginning of the all-Flash Array explosion talked about how stable Pure Storage arrays were compared to those trying to enter the market. Since then, I haven't bothered looking at another vendor for my flash storage needs. The support team alone is enough to put them ahead of all other vendors.
May 22, 2020
Happy with Pure Storage FlashArray
We've used or evaluated an in-house DRDB SSD commodity server pairs and NetApp SSD storage units.
Performance and reliability were better with Pure Storage FlashArray, given that we didn't have a ton of time to dedicate in-house resources to, and it was less expensive than the other options.
Performance and reliability were better with Pure Storage FlashArray, given that we didn't have a ton of time to dedicate in-house resources to, and it was less expensive than the other options.
The FlashArray beat the hybrid arrays in performance, the other all-flash arrays we evaluated in price, and all of the legacy spinning-disk arrays in ease of management and in reliability. Their two huge advantages were their "Evergreen" upgrade-everything-forever option and the visibly different Pure Storage organizational culture. Pure was just so much better to work with as an organization. The difference was night and day.
May 22, 2020
PureStorage - Why look at anything else?
We compared the PureStorage side by side with EMC XtremeIO. At the time, XtremeIO seemed like a beta product compared to the PureStorage offering. XtremeIO had just released a software upgrade which required total evacuation of the array. Deduplication was not production ready. Replication was a half-baked bolt on using their virtual recoverpoint appliances (as well as an extra charge).
May 22, 2020
Pure, the only choice for flash!
We have used XIO Tech ISE arrays for all flash, and the stability and reliability of that product just don't compare. When making a change on that product you always did it with fingers crossed that some systems would not go down.
The Forever Flash offering from Pure is the deal maker. We will always have new controllers every 3 years and will not need to ever purchase new or upgrade our array.
May 20, 2020
Is Pure Storage right for you?
We have only really used Dell PowerVault and Pure Storage for our storage environments. We have a Nimble, but it is very new to us still.
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage: Feel the Speed
- IBM FlashSystem 7200 (formerly Storwize V7000)
We tested Mixed Storage HDD and SSD with De and HP boxes.
With HP and Lenovo Full SSD Enclosures.
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage Review
The all-flash array was in place when I started at this company.
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage is the best!
Pure Storage is completely different solution and meet our expectation in any fields.
Simple and reliable storage with good support.
Simple and reliable storage with good support.