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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
    100%
  • 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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Avg 9.1
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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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September 24, 2019

Once you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!

Don Howard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Don Howard
Storage Architect
JBS USA (Food Production, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any block storage load, except perhaps mainframe, should feel right at home on a FlashArray. It doesn't depend on proprietary agents or multi-path software to get performance. We use it on physical systems and virtual systems alike. Our system administrators are amazed with how quickly we can respond to their needs with Pure Storage. Plus we get storage-level duplication and compression to lower our overall footprint.
September 24, 2019

Pure Storage FlashArray - Easy to set up, use, and maintain.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Food & Beverages Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
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Pure Storage FlashArray is all around a good fit for any workload given that it is all-flash storage. Be a bit cautious about putting too many high performing applications on it as you'll run out of CPU resources well before you overrun the SSD/NVMe modules. Although this storage has the ability to attach more shelves of modules to it, you definitely want to do analysis on whether the CPU can handle it or not.
September 24, 2019

Pure Magic

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Ken Crowley
North America Data Centers & Cloud Systems Manager
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We saw a tremendous performance boost when migrating MS SQL workloads to the Pure platform. Pure also gave us unbelievable capacity from its data reduction algorithms.
September 24, 2019

Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure

Michele Gottardi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michele Gottardi
IT Project Manager
Gruppo Nuova Castelli (Food Production, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited for all the scenarios in which business continuity is a priority for the project. Optimize the infrastructure with a density that supports Direct Flash. Place all company workloads on flash. Pure's data reduction, QoS and availability make secure and cost-effective consolidation possible. Save not only racks but also data center space rows.
September 20, 2019

Take 5 minutes to research Pure Storage FlashArray...you won't be disappointed

BJ
Brad Johnson
IT Administration Supervisor
MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC (Wholesale, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
FlashArray works extremely well on virtual environments. Stay away from using it for your multimedia files since you wouldn't be fully utilizing the dedupe and compression functionalities.
September 20, 2019

Best Storage Performance

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Other
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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PureStorage is well suited for ALL SAP Databases. It's less appropriate for backups on secondary storage. Flash Array is good to get excellent performance when the Sap system is needed.
September 20, 2019

PUREWORLD

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Executive in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, with the price tag, it's not suitable for physical host or databases, which will consume almost a 2:1 ratio of storage capacity.
September 20, 2019

Everything we expected and more

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Russell Koo
Director - Infrastructure
LV Brands (Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage arrays are best suited in environments where you need your storage solution to last longer than the standard five years. Pure Storage allows for expansion and growth where other providers (specifically Dell EMC) do not. Pure keeps its promises and provides top-of-the-stack support. They are everything they were advertised to be.
September 18, 2019

How Pure Storage made my job easier

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Internet Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for companies that have a sizable need for storage. I don't know how small they go, but I'd imagine its not a good fit for someone needing only 5-10 TB. To my understanding it grows well beyond 100 TB. Compression and dedupe doesn't work well for already compressed files such as video and pictures, so another technology would be good for that. Does well with database and file servers.
September 18, 2019

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David Gates | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Gates
Network Specialist
Rex Lumber Company (Wholesale, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage seems well suited for virtual environments running VMware vSphere products where vmotion, vmfs volumes, and HP server hosts where the innate performance of flash technology promotes a smooth, fast operation. Snapshots are less impactful when the data reduction ratios of anywhere from 3.3 to 6.6 to 1 figure in.
September 18, 2019

Don't be fooled by their marketing. They aren't BS-ing you, for a change. Try it out and check the TCO for the next decade.

Krishna Prasad Reddy Kunkala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Krishna Prasad Reddy Kunkala
Infrastructure Architect
The Canadian Medical Protective Association (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When you need [a solution with] high performance, that is scalable with low TCO, Pure Storage works great. Almost no learning curve for administrators makes it even better.

If all you need is some disk space and performance is not a requirement - something like slow file systems, and the budget is very low - it definitely feels expensive and unfit.
September 13, 2019

Storage that I never have to think about.

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Neil Bell
Infrastructure Engineer
Game Retail Ltd. (Retail, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Definitely not the cheap option but perfect for any setup where speed and reliability are paramount. It is also great knowing that any updates will be done by the support staff.

Much as I love the idea of this being my only storage solution, we do use cheaper options for storing bulk media content (doesn't compress or dedupe well) and for storing our backups.
September 13, 2019

Pure performance. Pure reliability. Pure.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Aviation & Aerospace Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In our environment, we have yet to see where our Pure Storage system is a bad fit. The only exception to that would probably be disk-based backups; we don't use it there only because we use less expensive spinning disk for backups as we don't have a performance, management, or downtime sensitive backup environment.
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