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Pure Storage FlashArray pros and cons

Vendor: Pure Storage

4.5 out of 5

205 reviews
99% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Pure Storage FlashArray offers low latency, high IOPS, and advanced deduplication, excelling in swift application performance and storage efficiency. It supports non-disruptive upgrades and robust redundancy but lacks scalability and seamless third-party integration. High costs and limited support options challenge cost-effectiveness and usability. Enhanced historical analytics are needed for better capacity planning, making it a powerful yet flawed choice for tech buyers.

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PROS

Pure Storage FlashArray offers extremely low latency and high IOPS, making it ideal for VMware environments.

The data reduction technology includes effective deduplication and compression, significantly saving storage space.

The system supports non-disruptive upgrades, allowing users to maintain performance and uptime during updates.

Pure Storage FlashArray provides excellent reliability with high stability and minimal downtime.

Scalability is a strong feature, enabling easy capacity expansion without increasing the physical footprint.

CONS

Pure Storage FlashArray's pricing is considered high in comparison to competitors.

Scalability issues arise as it may not support beyond a certain limit, requiring additional arrays.

There are challenges with integration and compatibility, particularly with third-party platforms like AWS and VMware.

Snapshot replication scheduling has been a requested feature that is yet to be implemented.

Logging visibility for customers is limited, making troubleshooting difficult without contacting support.

Pure Storage FlashArray Pros review quotes

Sr Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 3, 2019

It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity.

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JK

Senior Systems Administrator for Research at Chapman University

Sep 20, 2019

Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use.

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Director of Engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 14, 2025

As we needed to grow in capacity, we were able to do so without increasing footprint by replacing smaller devices with larger ones.

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TY

Senior Network Engineer at US Dept of Energy Idaho Operations Office

Jun 17, 2019

It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done.

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Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Sep 24, 2025

Pure Storage FlashArray is a good product with minimal management requirements once set up correctly and helped reduce our storage footprint from EMC.

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Senior Manager of Technical Alliances at Rubrik

Jun 17, 2019

All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it.

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reviewer1127118

Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 2, 2021

One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table.

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MM

CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Nov 21, 2018

It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit.

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CS

Works at a consultancy with self employed

Jan 13, 2025

They have a very good support system, and the GUI is also very intuitive.

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reviewer1514421

IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 5, 2021

The mobile app is very helpful.

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Pure Storage FlashArray Cons review quotes

Sr Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 3, 2019

I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers.

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JK

Senior Systems Administrator for Research at Chapman University

Sep 20, 2019

The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features.

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Director of Engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 14, 2025

One requested enhancement yet to manifest is the scheduling of snapshot replications.

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TY

Senior Network Engineer at US Dept of Energy Idaho Operations Office

Jun 17, 2019

We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter.

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Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Sep 24, 2025

Pure Storage can improve FlashArray by providing more logging visibility to customers. Currently, there is no log visibility.

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Senior Manager of Technical Alliances at Rubrik

Jun 17, 2019

I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side.

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reviewer1127118

Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 2, 2021

I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings.

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MM

CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Nov 21, 2018

The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless.

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CS

Works at a consultancy with self employed

Jan 13, 2025

Based on my experience with various technologies like EMC, NetApp, and Pure Storage, one area for improvement is compliance certifications. NetApp excels in this area, particularly in the American Army or defense sector, where NetApp has approval, whereas others are striving to achieve the same. NetApp also delivers security, ransomware protection, and scale-up capabilities more effectively.

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reviewer1514421

IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 5, 2021

The solution is not cheap.

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