NetApp AFF A-Series vs. Pure Storage FlashArray

NetApp AFF A-Series

35 Reviews and Ratings

Pure Storage FlashArray

358 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
NetApp AFF A-Series	Score9 out of 10	N/A	NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.	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

NetApp AFF A-Series

Pure Storage FlashArray

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Pricing Offerings
NetApp AFF A-Series	Pure Storage FlashArray
Free Trial
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	NetApp AFF A-Series	Pure Storage FlashArray
Considered Both Products	NetApp No answer on this topic	Pure Storage Bagit Airlangga Junior Manager Data Center in Information Technology at PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray I think it is easy to choose between all of competitor. At that time, only Pure Storage FlashArray gave us warranty for right-sized, where they guarantee that if the capacity is less than we agreed then they provide additional storage at no cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray I believe that Pure has set itself way ahead of its competition in the storage market, you could probably find something faster but it will lack in ease of use. You could pay less for something but it will lack a key feature that Pure offers. It is hard to find something like … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray We liked the licensing more with the Pure Array and its performance at the time was better than others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray It was easier to use but has fewer features. When the selection process was started, the NetApp was was still very difficult to use. The console for Pure won over the team. From a speed perspective, all of the FlashArrays are fast enough for our infrastructure and applications. Incentivized Helpful? Michele Gottardi IT Project Manager in Information Technology at Gruppo Nuova Castelli (Food Production, 501-1000 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Storage FlashArray accelerates your mission-critical apps, eliminates data silos, and eliminates the complexity of legacy infrastructures. Get a data-centric architecture that delivers enterprise-grade reliability and automation without compromising on innovation. Optimize … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Marteau Senior Manager WW Systems & Storage in Information Technology at Dassault Systemes (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray All those guys are losers. Definitely, there are no alternatives. This is like EV cars. You can buy whatever, but Tesla is still the reference. Spending money elsewhere is okay because rates are 0%, but this remains crazy. Why pay more for less? All the features are not as good … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Locastro Enterprise Architect in Information Technology at THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray NetApp, at the time, was more a hybrid approach as did not have the same level of features and capabilities in the all-flash array market, newer products have since been released to market that would make a closer comparison now, but three years ago this was not the case. Nimble,… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray The Forever Flash offering from Pure is the deal maker. We will always have new controllers every 3 years and will not need to ever purchase new or upgrade our array. Incentivized Helpful? Stephen King Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Hometrack Australia (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Storage's ease of use and performance makes it a great choice for a storage solution. 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 At the time of purchase Pure Storage FlashArray was the best and the only one born entirely with Flash discs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Storage FlashArray is a lot simpler to configure and manage as you do not need to manage aggregates, volumes, and LUNs separately as you do in NetApp. Pure Storage FlashArray has better deduplication due to the fact it is whole array deduplication as opposed to volume or … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray When we looked at retiring the our old VNX arrays we evaluated a lot of different solutions, but the FlashArray beat them across the board. They had the lowest price, the smallest physical footprint to data storage, and fastest time to deliver of all the products we looked at. Incentivized Helpful? Nicolas Pla Gerente de Tecnologia in Information Technology at Despegar.com (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray We choose Pure storage FlashArray over all of these competitors because we found better Performance, Price, and Support. Incentivized Helpful? Trey Pautsch Sr. Enterprise Architect in Information Technology at Atmosera (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray At first, they most of our selection criteria but were missing some key components. We could use them for specialized deployments but not shared systems. They worked with us and added the components we required and we now are moving all storage needs to Pure Storage systems. … Incentivized Helpful? Mike McFarland IT Manager in Information Technology at West Coast University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Pure Storage FlashArray All of the major competitors did not perform as fast nor were as easy to maintain and administrate. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Better price/usable storage, better performance, higher dedupe and compression, easy to use and self-explanatory GUI, good support, rack and stack and running in 4 hours were some of the reasons we selected Pure Storage. 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Features

NetApp AFF A-Series

Pure Storage FlashArray

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of NetApp AFF A-Series and Pure Storage FlashArray
Feature	NetApp AFF A-Series 8.3 8 Ratings	Pure Storage FlashArray 9.3 154 Ratings
Flash Array Performance	9.18 Ratings	10.0154 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	9.17 Ratings	9.0144 Ratings
Data Compression	6.37 Ratings	8.0153 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	8.17 Ratings	10.0148 Ratings
Simplicity	8.98 Ratings	10.0154 Ratings
Power Savings	8.07 Ratings	9.0131 Ratings

User Ratings
	NetApp AFF A-Series	Pure Storage FlashArray
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (9 ratings)	10.0 (207 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (25 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (16 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (5 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 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)