Dell Compellent (discontinued) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray

Dell Compellent (discontinued)

32 Reviews and Ratings

Pure Storage FlashArray

358 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell Compellent (discontinued)	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Since it's acquisition in 2011 Compellent became a Dell product line of storage solutions (e.g. Dell Compellent Storage Center). Compellent products became part of the Dell EMC SC Series of enterprise flash and SAN storage devices and are now EOL.	N/A
Pure Storage FlashArray	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.	N/A

Pricing

Dell Compellent (discontinued)

Pure Storage FlashArray

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Pricing Offerings
Dell Compellent (discontinued)	Pure Storage FlashArray
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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Dell Compellent (discontinued)	Pure Storage FlashArray
Considered Both Products	Discontinued Products Verified User Chose Dell Compellent (discontinued) I have to say that the Pure Storage FlashArray is way simpler to configure, monitor, and update. There are various features that the Pure Storage FlashArray offers, such as viewing your virtual infrastructure to see if the issues lie with your storage or VM's that Dell EMC SC … Incentivized Helpful?	Pure Storage Victor Padro Service Engineer in Information Technology at SCAT - Servicios en Computación y en Alta Tecnología (Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Really the deduplication and compression ratio has been all over these guys. The speed on the flash storage seems more customized if I may say and our deployments were smooth. Nothing against these guys since we work with all at the same level, but there are very notable perks … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Bullock Sr. Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross of Idaho (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray [They] seemed to have all the right things in place for our environment. A bit costly up front, but good return on less stress, better performance and good support whenever we do have issues. Incentivized Helpful? Drew Taylor Senior Storage Engineer in Information Technology at FLIR Systems (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Blows them out of the water. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray The performance of the Pure arrays is better but there is a difference in products so it is not really a fair comparison since the other arrays have some flash and some slower drives. However, we have had nothing but good experiences when dealing with support on upgrades and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure beats the Dell Compellent hands down on implementation, support, speed, dedupe, use, and management interface. It beats Quantum on everything but dedupe. Quantum has the best dedupe capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? Eric van Ingen IT Resource Manager in Information Technology at Supermercados S*Mart (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray We were looking for a SAN with a large capacity in a small footprint and easy to use interface. The 3Par had a much larger footprint and cost a lot more. Compellent had fewer features then Pure and seem not as easy to use while the dedupe and compression process seemed not as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Dell and Netapp require constant touching and management in our experience. The Flash Array is the opposite of that. The monitoring that PureOne provides for free is also awesome and costs money from other competitors. The other vendors really didn't have a great answer to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Storage FlashArray was chosen due to the performance, reduced management complexity, and support features as compared to other solutions. Some vendors did not offer a support model that fit, compatibility with legacy HPUX, or offered the compression and dedupe features. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray The FlashArray is faster and easier to use than all the other products I've used. Other ones are close, but from our perspective, Pure won in every area. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure wins easily with ease of use and predictable pricing against all competitors we reviewed. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Dell Compellent (discontinued)

Pure Storage FlashArray

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Dell Compellent (discontinued) and Pure Storage FlashArray
Feature	Dell Compellent (discontinued) 8.3 3 Ratings	Pure Storage FlashArray 9.3 154 Ratings
Flash Array Performance	8.03 Ratings	10.0154 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	8.03 Ratings	9.0144 Ratings
Data Compression	8.03 Ratings	8.0153 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	8.03 Ratings	10.0148 Ratings
Simplicity	9.03 Ratings	10.0154 Ratings
Power Savings	9.03 Ratings	9.0131 Ratings

User Ratings
	Dell Compellent (discontinued)	Pure Storage FlashArray
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (6 ratings)	10.0 (207 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (25 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (16 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (5 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.3 (75 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (3 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (6 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (5 ratings)