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Pure Storage FlashArray

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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)
    10.0
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  • Simplicity (154)
    10.0
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  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)
    10.0
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  • Data Compression (153)
    8.0
    80%

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Bagit Airlangga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bagit Airlangga
Junior Manager Data Center
PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees)
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Product Demos

Pure Storage Demo in 8 Minutes

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Demo of Pure Storage UCS Director Adapter for Creating LUNs on Pure Storage FlashArray

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Enterprise Flash Array Storage

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

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Product Details

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:

  • 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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Frequently Asked Questions

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

Why Pure Storage FlashArray Should Be Your #1 Choice!

Christopher Mills | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christopher Mills
Senior Technical Infrastructure Engineer
St. Charles Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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Likelihood to Recommend
Pure FlashArray has moved from being a niche array for VDI deployments to being an overall storage array to handle pretty much any workload you can throw at it. We have replaced all of our legacy "blue" storage arrays with the Pure FlashArray, and have seen nothing but positive results across the board.
March 23, 2021

Pure-ly fast storage!

Muhammad Mulla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Muhammad Mulla
Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems
Cancer Research UK (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The array is quite well suited as a general-purpose storage device for VCenter. We also have some volumes directly zoned to some Windows servers and it is equally adept at handling that.

I would, however, not recommend using Pure Storage FlashArray as a backup target. Use a purpose-built appliance for backups and, for goodness sake, keep backups on a separate storage device to production!
March 23, 2021

PURELY Positive

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Likelihood to Recommend
It is very effective in an area where you need to handle high levels of IO as well as maintaining redundancy. This would apply to critical applications or high activity databases. This product would not be very effective for long-term storage of cold data that is not touched very often.

December 02, 2020

Pure reliability, pure simplicity, Pure Storage

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Gambling & Casinos Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Frankly, I haven't found a workload that creates challenges for this hardware. I no longer worry about IOPS in my planning, because with fiber backing it's just not a bottleneck anymore. We've seen some great performance improvements in Exchange (on-prem) and SQL workloads as well. Backups are no longer a disruptive feature of our environment because the snapshots are managed so well.
October 26, 2020

Pure storage, great value, fast storage, no headaches.

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Kevin Hannon
IT Director
Town of Belchertown (Government Administration, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
In any environment that is large enough to need backend storage, this is a great long-term solution. Looking forward Pure's support offerings put them head and shoulders above their competition. This not only gives us a top of class storage solution but does so at a long-term support cost that is a fraction of other solutions.
August 23, 2020

Pure Storage is the best SAN we've ever used. Well worth the investment!

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Executive in Information Technology
Pharmaceuticals Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage is needed where you need speed and performance. It is also great for ease of use and management, which was key for us as we didn't have the resources to spend a lot of time managing our storage system. It is probably too expensive to be used as secondary or backup storage, but that is probably the case for any flash-based storage system.
August 12, 2020

Pure Storage is Pure Simplicity and Pure Bliss

John Bartch | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Bartch
Systems and Network Programmer II
Foothill-De Anza Community College District (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I have only used the Pure array(s) in our VDI environment(s). It's been so simple to administer. Pure Storage has monitored for problems, alerted us promptly, and sent out replacement parts quickly. The array's have not had any unscheduled downtime since we bought them and I have had no problems administering them. The fault tolerance built into the system allows for upgrades and replacements without any downtime.
May 28, 2020

Pure Storage Flash Array, the Only Storage you will Need!

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage shines in the area of virtualization. An all-flash array helps database servers perform at a very high rate and if you deploy Pure Storage in a VMware environment, you can expect to see the deduplication and compression ratios off the charts! Many of us run hundreds of VMs with the same OS and due to this, the ratio of space that you save becomes worth it.

An example where you probably would not want to implement Pure Storage FlashArray is in an unstructured data environment. For this, you would use another product they have called Flash Blade.
May 27, 2020

A Pure pleasure to use!

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you cannot afford it, it probably is not a good choice - but why are you looking at enterprise storage then? We use in a virtual space and it works GREAT. We use it with a Multi-5TB data base which is hammered 24x7 - any issues are not related to storage - every issue we have had is due to the application.
May 26, 2020

Pure Storage: A Simplified Effective Flash Array

Tony Shoemaker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tony Shoemaker
Senior Systems Engineer
Christian Broadcasting Network (Religious Institutions, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's ideal for any environment that has similar data, such as VDI. For low latency needs, it exceeds our DBA's expectations. Where we do not see a good fit for the flash array is for any media type content. Sure, it would work, but wouldn't make sense for the cost/TB.
May 23, 2020

Pure Storage FlashArray from an administrator perspective

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We are using and testing on the SAN capabilities of the array. So far, it's a very good system overall. We haven't extensively tested the NAS side of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't perform well - only that I have no overview on it
May 22, 2020

Pure Storage is purely awesome!

Mike McFarland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike McFarland
IT Manager
West Coast University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Our databases and application servers is well suited for the flash array. File server and other servers are wasted a bit with flash. Still, because there is no faster available storage then this is the best solution in terms of performance.
May 22, 2020

Pure Storage FlashArray makes me happy

Wes Dunaway | TrustRadius Reviewer
Wes Dunaway
Senior System Architect
Wellsource (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any dataset which requires tremendous speed and response times would benefit from PureArray.
As for less appropriate use cases, there really is not a bad spot to use PureArray, but there may be situations where it would not provide the most bang for your dollar. Storing cold/rarely accessed data on a PureArray would be a waste.
May 22, 2020

Happy with Pure Storage FlashArray

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect for business-critical databases that do not fit entirely in memory. If the database fits in memory, there are better distributed solutions. If the database is non-critical, then Pure is more expensive than just hosting a database on local SSDs with regular backups. It offers the best reliability when combined with a physical on-prem 10G dual switch environment.
May 22, 2020

Pure Storage FlashArray: Enterprise-wide Benefits More Than Worth the Cost

James Kelly | TrustRadius Reviewer
James Kelly
Senior Systems Administrator—Research
Chapman University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
All-flash storage is expensive, and full-featured all-flash, like the FlashArray, is even more expensive. You need to have a need for it. If you use virtual desktops in your environment, or if you have performance-sensitive databases or database-integrated applications, or if you are doing any sort of significant machine-learning, deep-learning, or data analytics, these are all workloads that will benefit from FlashArray storage. Anyone of those, much less all of them, would easily rationalize spending the extra money to get the benefits of a FlashArray.
May 22, 2020

PureStorage - Why look at anything else?

Ben Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ben Moore
Lead Systems Engineer
Preferred Mutual (Insurance, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PureStorage is well suited for any situation where performance is the top requirement. Since implementation, we have not been able to throw anything at it that has caused any latency above 1ms. It would not be well suited as a backup endpoint, or NAS type storage simply due to the cost and available performance.
May 22, 2020

Pure, the only choice for flash!

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The only thing I can attest to is if you are looking for a storage backend to your virtual infrastructure, I think Pure Storage FlashArray does a fantastic job at that. It allows very easy host group creation which makes assigning volumes to virtual hosts very simple, and on the flip side, breaking them down is also very simple.
May 22, 2020

A flash array that improves performance and overall ROI for many many years.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure is great for production storage for any type of system. Database systems will benefit from the performance while file storage will benefit from the deduplication and compression.
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