NetApp NVMe AFF A800 and Pure FlashArray X NVMe are strong competitors in the data storage market. Users are generally happier with the pricing and support of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 but find Pure FlashArray X NVMe's features superior despite a higher cost.
Features: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 offers robust data management capabilities, high performance, and strong reliability. Pure FlashArray X NVMe features impressive speed, strong scalability, and seamless integration. Users find Pure FlashArray X NVMe's advanced features, including data reduction and efficiency, more attractive.
Room for Improvement: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 users desire more user-friendly configuration options, better documentation, and enhancements in system updates. Pure FlashArray X NVMe users would like improvements in pricing flexibility, support enhancements, and more intuitive user interfaces.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is praised for straightforward deployment and a responsive support team. Pure FlashArray X NVMe receives high marks for quick deployment but has mixed reviews on customer service responsiveness. Users find NetApp NVMe AFF A800 more consistent in deployment and support experience.
Pricing and ROI: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is seen as cost-effective with quicker ROI. Pure FlashArray X NVMe, while more expensive, demonstrates strong ROI over time due to advanced features. Users are generally more satisfied with NetApp NVMe AFF A800's pricing structure but find the long-term ROI of Pure FlashArray X NVMe justifiable.
By opting for the gold subscription every three years, you get a free upgrade to the latest controller release.
If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.
We also had one outage where a controller of one of the products had failed and had to be replaced on-site.
Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.
Pure has good storage.
It is highly scalable.
It is suitable for both medium-sized and enterprise businesses.
It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.
During the eight years, there have been no problems such as hardware failure or stopping.
I would rate the stability of the solution as a ten out of ten.
I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.
We would appreciate a built-in transparent failover in the next release to eliminate the need for a separate metro cluster.
I'm eagerly anticipating the roadmap's promise of introducing multiple controllers, which could significantly boost scalability and resilience.
We mostly rely on long-term releases. We don't need the most up-to-date features, but we need a reliable environment.
While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.
The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.
I would give it a nine out of ten in terms of costliness.
Pure Storage has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator.
The platform's robust features include excellent sustainability tracking, and a comprehensive dashboard offering insights into IOPS, bandwidth, performance, and virtual activities.
Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.
Your data is a gold mine. Get the most out of it - faster - with AFF A800. Designed for NVMe media, further accelerated with NVMe/FC connectivity to the host, AFF A800 all-flash systems deliver an incredible sub-200 microsecond latency. Providing more than 11.4M IOPS and 300GB/s throughput in a single cluster, AFF A800 redefines the limit of what’s possible with artificial intelligence and deep learning.
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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