Pure Storage is the most effective storage I've ever used
Updated March 23, 2021
Pure Storage is the most effective storage I've ever used
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage is our Tier 1 storage platform for all servers and services hosted in our datacenter. That's dozens of applications, big and small, in a diverse technical environment with lots of different workloads. The workloads on Pure Storage arrays are 99% virtualized. While it was originally brought in to host our largest workloads that require the highest performing IO, it quickly became the standard for storage performance. Any system engineer will tell you that storage performance issues are a pain, and with shared storage, are not easy to manage. Pure Storage has made storage performance issues a thing of the past and high performing storage is the new normal.
- High performing storage IO.
- Simple set-up, configuration, and administration.
- Cost can be relatively high.
- Capacity increases only come in specific sizes (2, 5, 10TB), so upgrades are not very customizable.
- Lessens storage administration overhead through its simplicity.
- Users in our Tier1 application notice the performance increase instantly. Happy customers are priceless.
NetApp has a lot of issues. Its software is clunky and complicated. It wastes much capacity in the storage operating system. It doesn't do deduplication and compression that well and takes a CPU hit when it does. And all-flash storage was never really an option. At just about every level, we were tired of NetApp and have since become used to the simplicity and performance of Pure.
Pure Storage FlashArray Feature Ratings
Upgrading Pure Storage FlashArray
Yes - Being a customer of Pure storage for over 4 years, we have been through several software and hardware upgrades. The software upgrades have always been efficient engagements that are performed almost completely by Pure support. You schedule the upgrade with them and allow support access to your controllers (a couple of clicks). All the upgrades they have performed have been non-disruptive with no downtime or degradation of performance.
- Better deduplication
- Higher throughput
- Enhanced features
- Enhanced cloud features
- Security features
Yes - We are currently using the support version that includes a complete hardware replacement every 3 years. While this is a good benefit, we have questioned whether it is a good value in the long run.
Yes - We have upgraded to different models of Pure storage as they have changed their product lines. We have had FA and X models as well as various controllers within those lines. The Purity OS has remained the only software that runs them, although with newer versions along the way. Purity upgrades have been non-disruptive and have enhanced performance, deduplication, management, and added features.