G2

Chris S.

Lead System Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/17/2021

"Best-in-Class Enterprise Storage for the 21st Century"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Pure Storage FlashArray?

Pure Storage has several features that are superior to other storage platforms and make the job of the storage administrator less frustrating and time-consuming, while giving greater flexibility and return on investment. For example, in my opinion, Pure Storage deduplication is the high performing dedup I have seen. I have used other storage vendors that don't give as a great a result as Pure and even have a performance penalty for enabling deduplication. Pure has no performance issues with dedup and is giving us greater than 4-to-1 dedup ratios overall. I won't forget to mention that this is happening on all-flash and averaging sub-3ms performance overall, easily handling the 50-60K IOPS our datacenter throws at it. I believe our model has room for 150K IOPS, so we're not even giving it a work out. Their proprietary RAID is a valuable feature for supporting their arrays, because disk loss causes the RAID to shift data and simply lower the capacity rather than losing data after the third disk failure. Of course, given enough failures, data loss would occur, but in the 5 years we've had 2 Pure Storage arrays, we have performed several controller upgrades, a couple dozen software upgrades, added capacity, thousands of storage operations (snapshots, volumes, etc.) with LITERALLY ZERO DOWNTIME. Needless to say, Pure provides excellent support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pure Storage FlashArray?

There is really not a lot to dislike about Pure Storage. The cost is high, so just be aware of that, even though there is, in my opinion, a very clear return on investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pure Storage FlashArray:

I have had an excellent relationship with our Pure Storage rep. They allowed us to test drive and preview as much as possible their product before we purchase. The technology is as rock-solid as can be delivered from a technology product. Nothing is perfect, but their support matched with the innovative thinking means your investment will go far and will deliver the value you're looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pure Storage FlashArray solving and how is that benefiting you?

Storage is one of the hidden barriers to managing large datacenters. Capacity is growing, but applications are growing their demand for storage performance. Several years ago, storage seemed to be the de facto bottleneck for all datacenters. Pure not only made all-flash the standard, but also set the standard for support and modern datacenter and DevOps features. We are using Pure Storage for our entire organization's storage. From the smallest application to the largest IO-hungry database, Pure handles requests at an extremely high performance rate with the consistency and manageability needed for today's enterprise environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.