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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
    100%
  • Simplicity (154)
    10.0
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  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)
    10.0
    100%
  • 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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Features

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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FlashArray Architecture Overview
FlashArray//X: The Next Gen All-Flash Array
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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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May 20, 2020

The little array that could

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Toby Wenzel
Systems Architect
State Water Resource Control Board (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It works very well for single purpose workloads (think databases or same type applications). It seems to struggle with good compression and deduping mixed workloads. We have noticed about a 6:1 ratio with DBs, and <3:1 on mixed workloads or large file servers. It is still extremely fast, just not as good compression and dedupe.
May 19, 2020

Pure Storage is good!

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Administrator in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend
I think Pure Storage is a good fit for any environment. We have DELL/EMC flash in our environment, but we see better latency and better data compression from Pure Storage.
May 19, 2020

Pure Storage is very innovative and simple to manage

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College325 Hess
Sourcing team leader; commputing
College of American Pathologists (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage is a very nice array and easy to manage. It can serve up data in normal environments that do not require fast IO. The speed of the array for applications that require very fast IO is lagging. We are not using the Pure Storage Array for our most critical servers and use NVMe for those servers instead.
May 19, 2020

Pure Storage FlashArray replaced outdated NetApp and the benefits were outstanding

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Omar Khalid
Senior Information Technology Analyst
Ricoh Printing Systems America, Inc. (Printing, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe if the budget allows that a Pure Array or multiple arrays can be used in any configuration or any density regardless of how much data needs to be stored or how much performance is required.
May 19, 2020

"Flashy" Next Level Deduplication and Performance with the FlashArray

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Max Tevs
Infrastructure Administrator
Atmosera (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The FlashArray is well suited in a high utilization environment. I believe the best use for the FlashArray is for cloud/managed service providers, however, the FlashArray has its place in on-prem high utilization environments as well. The FlashArray is also well suited in environments where there will be multiple FlashArrays as you can set up pods and interconnect the arrays.
In smaller and lower utilized environments, the FlashArray may not be as well suited due to the cost of the array. For example, the FlashArray is not the best use for backup storage (as backup storage does not need to be fast and does not typically carry production workloads).
December 06, 2019

Once you go Orange, you never go back!

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Just everything is faster, better and taking less space with Pure. The support is superb. The performance is great. Our physical storage footprint is smaller. Our administrators are happier. Support for ESXi is better. I can't say enough about how happy we are to have made the switch to Pure Storage.
November 14, 2019

Pure Storage FlashArray Review

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It's Flash Storage, so you should only be using it for mission critical or systems that need real performance. Running database servers or other things that have a high I/O demand should run amazing here. Obviously you don't use that for less demanding systems or for storing data that is seldom used.
October 31, 2019

Pure storage, set up in a Flash.

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Paul Phelan
System Engineer
Hospital (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
High usage servers that need the I/O to stack behind with storage is where Pure Storage should be. It also works great in an environment when there is no stable storage engineer that understands the backend of storage array 24/7. This is great because it takes maybe an afternoon to set up, and once you have it done there is very little to no need to go back around to tweak the setup. After that, all you have to do is maintenance that Pure Storage support assists with and provisioning a LUN is a breeze.
October 29, 2019

Pure Storage Array is a game changer for us

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PS FA is well suited to environments that utilize many hundreds of thousands, or millions, of IOPS where you need rock-solid reliability and ultra-fast response times. It would be overkill in an environment where IOPS is in the tens of thousands or less, in my opinion. You'd still get the same reliability and outstanding latency/performance though, which is a huge plus.
October 04, 2019

Very happy!

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Drew Taylor
Senior Storage Engineer
FLIR Systems (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The FlashArray excels at virtual workloads. The level of integration and reporting that they have achieved is phenomenal. For our purposes the only area that we have elected to not leverage these devices are where we have extremely large file storage where high performance is not paramount.
September 27, 2019

Why we switched to Pure

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Trey Pautsch
Sr. Enterprise Architect
Atmosera (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We have only one scenario where Pure is not the answer; backups and archives. For all other scenarios, we have been very happy with the FlashArrays. We are investigating FlashBlades for a couple of specialized deployments, where they may be better suited but we will stay with Pure for all solutions not involving backups.
September 27, 2019

Flash our Data

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
FlashArray is well suited for time-critical applications where the reading & writing of data is time-critical for the performance. Also, the compression of data is nicely developed. I will not recommend the use of FlashArray for scenarios where data backup is the only purpose. It can surely be done but will not be a cost-effective solution.
September 25, 2019

From the depths of hell in silence, to the heights of success in one move.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Gambling & Casinos Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Database and ESX performance is definitely one of Pure's strengths.

If you have a mixed type of workload, the Arrays can struggle with completing the dedup processes if you drive the controllers hard. If this happens, disk space can suddenly disappear. We have had to ask Pure to install tuning configurations on a number of occasions to help.
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