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Pure Storage FlashArray

Score9.9 out of 10

358 Reviews and Ratings

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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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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Pure Storage FlashArray has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 9.7

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 9.3

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9

Areas for Improvement

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.1

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about Pure Storage FlashArray.
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Pure Storage FlashArray -- Still Wonderful After 7 Years

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary storage platform for our VMware virtualized environment. We use it to host all of our storage needs, from test workstations to our primary databases. The flexibility of the platform along with its ease of use made it an easy decision. Utilizing native replication to an array at our secondary site makes disaster recovery effortless.

Pros

  • Simple interface
  • Excellent security (with SafeMode)
  • Ease of use

Cons

  • Slightly more flexible upgrade options
  • Better options to watch "behind the scenes" operations
  • Available software upgrade notifications

Return on Investment

  • + Quickly able to provision storage to end users
  • + Simple integrations steps when adding new hosts into the environment
  • - Overall cost compared to other vendors is slightly higher

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dell PowerScale

Other Software Used

VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series

All flash storage for all-round workload

Incentivized
Bagit AirlanggaView profile
Junior Manager Data Center in Information Technology at PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for virtualization and for main datastore, and I think it is perfect for our environment that needs to process multiple real time transactions because it has super fast all-flash SSD NVMe disk. This is a huge improvement for us who previously only used hybrid disk. One of the important features that we use every day is storage snapshot which is equipped with ant-ransomware.

Pros

  • Anti-ransomware
  • Right-sized Guarantee
  • Very fast SSD NVMe

Cons

  • Snapshot Restore procedure needs to be improved
  • Multifactor authentication
  • Certification for user

Return on Investment

  • Improve speed of business process
  • Reduce time to market
  • Improve Internal efficiency

Alternatives Considered

Dell PowerStore T Series and NetApp AFF A-Series

Other Software Used

Dell PowerStore T Series, NetApp AFF A-Series

Pure Flash always gets you there in time

Incentivized
Victor PadroView profile
Service Engineer in Information Technology at SCAT - Servicios en Computación y en Alta Tecnología (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deployed one array to a client's DRP which went pretty well. Currently it handles the DRP data and a few offsite production workloads which needed to be handled since this client is a wholefood distributor and didn't have enough infra to handle its load on the DRP and the offsite needs.

Pros

  • Ease of deployment.
  • Robustness at its core.
  • Helpful documentation.

Cons

  • Clear path to get compatibility matrices, it was hard to get it while doing it for Dell and VMware products.
  • More options regarding SMB, sometimes a few clients don't have a very big budget to implement a simple iSCSI SAN.
  • Spanish speaking techs, they need to improve that.

Return on Investment

  • Seamless integration really takes the big screen.
  • Speed on the vCenter cluster storage backend really was something everybody should have.
  • The simplicity on getting deployed on a single work day is awesome.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, Dell EMC Unity, Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent), Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage and HPE Nimble Storage

We bet on PURE Storage, and have won performance and less stress.

Ben BullockView profile
Sr. Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross of Idaho (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to implement
  • Always get a live transfer when calling in
  • Proactive support

Cons

  • Kinda like a black box in some situations, ie system space

Return on Investment

  • Positive - Long-running jobs take less time with AFA
  • Positive - no longer have to spend time looking at disk performance when events happen, it's rarely a storage issue these days.

Alternatives Considered

DDN IntelliFlash (formerly Tegile, from Western Digital), Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe and Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent)

My Pure Storage Experience

Incentivized
Todd Rasmussen
CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Corporate at Paramount Acceptance (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Data compression and data duplication.
  • FAST FAST FAST and reliable It just works!
  • Customer support is #1. We have never had a vendor better than Pure Storage.
  • EASY EASY EASY It just works! Stupid simple and easy to configure and manage.

Cons

  • Love to see the price come down. We want more units for data replication.
  • More details on the mobile app.
  • More support for Hyper-V.

Return on Investment

  • [Pure Storage has turned] days and hours into seconds and minutes. We are dramatically more productive from development to servicing our clients.
  • Consistent costs.
  • No down time for upgrades and maintenance.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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