Pure FlashArray X NVMe vs Pure Storage FlashBlade comparison

Pure FlashArray X NVMe and Pure Storage FlashBlade are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.7, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.8. Pure FlashArray X NVMe holds a 1.4% mindshare in AFS, compared to Pure Storage FlashBlade’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Pure FlashArray X NVMe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Pure Storage FlashBlade users who would recommend it.

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

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100% willing to recommend

Pure Storage FlashBlade

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95% willing to recommend

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Pure Storage FlashBlade

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Pure Storage FlashBlade and Pure FlashArray X NVMe are high-performance storage solutions for organizations. FlashArray X NVMe leads with superior performance, advanced features, and scalability, making it preferable for demanding environments.

Features: Pure Storage FlashBlade offers superior scalability, performance, and multi-dimensional workflow capabilities. Pure FlashArray X NVMe provides high speed, efficiency, and data protection features.

Room for Improvement: Pure Storage FlashBlade needs better integration with third-party services and enhanced reporting tools. Pure FlashArray X NVMe could improve remote access capabilities and lower the learning curve for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pure Storage FlashBlade has streamlined deployment and efficient customer service. Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers simpler deployment and more robust customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Pure Storage FlashBlade has competitive setup costs and satisfactory ROI. Pure FlashArray X NVMe, with slightly higher setup costs, delivers exceptional ROI due to its advanced technology and reliability.

To learn more, read our detailed Pure FlashArray X NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Pure FlashArray X NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Organizations reduced costs and improved performance with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, achieving quick ROI and efficient resource management.

Sentiment score

6.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade reduces total cost of ownership by enhancing efficiency, enabling fast restorations, and supporting diverse use cases.

If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe's technical support is praised for responsiveness, despite occasional follow-up issues, earning high customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

7.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade's support is generally praised for responsiveness, despite occasional delays and communication issues, maintaining a favorable reputation.

Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

I would rate them an eight out of ten.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers scalable storage with low latency, easy upgrades, though capacity customization and high costs are noted.

Sentiment score

8.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels in scalability, with seamless expansion, downtime-free growth, and praised support across various sectors.

It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage offers exceptional stability and reliability with outstanding support, consistently achieving high user ratings for performance and service.

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers exceptional reliability and impressive stability, featuring 99.999% uptime, seamless upgrades, and high performance.

I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.

Users recommend better pricing, cloud integration, support, documentation, and analytics for Pure Storage FlashBlade, improving efficiency and compatibility.

I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.

Santhosh Sridhara

Cloud Architect at DXC Technology

Storage replication should be essential.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

One way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

Its configuration should be easier.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.

Pure Storage FlashBlade is costly but valued for performance, reliability, and reduced administrative overhead, justifying its premium price.

The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

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Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels with ease of use, fast performance, scalability, seamless integration, and efficient storage features.

Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

It was one of the main requirements to have a FlashArray, and this really has sorted out these issues.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Pure Storage FlashBlade's scalability is one of the most valuable features, and importantly, it always works, allowing for seamless upgrades.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Ranking in All-Flash Storage

17th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (6th)

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Ranking in All-Flash Storage

12th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (8th), File and Object Storage (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pure Storage FlashBlade	2.2%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.4%
Other	96.4%

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Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

Has handled backup storage needs reliably and supports seamless upgrades

In environments requiring high throughput and low latency, Pure Storage FlashBlade provides high throughput and normal latency, but we do not have any application that requires low latency right now, so the latency of three to five milliseconds is considered kind of high. Pure Storage FlashBlade's ability to integrate with enterprise applications is not important for us, as we only want to present an S3 bucket for our backup, which we have done, and it works very fast. We use the Purity software's data reduction techniques; we have a backup software that compresses everything before sending it to the S3 bucket, achieving a data reduction of 1.1 to one. I would recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other companies because it's a very fast and scalable solution for anyone who needs it. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution an 8.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the Evergreen monthly payment. I do not know the exact device price, but I think the ...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

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What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensure...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

In my opinion, one way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade, allowing for synchronized data between both platforms.

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

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Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

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FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

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Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

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