"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The setup is straightforward."
"This solution is easy to use."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The solution has a wide variety of valuable features. The data progression works well. We use the snapshot functionality quite a bit and really like it."
"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"The solution is stable."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The technical support is very good."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"The file functionality could be better."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"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."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
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Dell EMC SC Series is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 13 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 34 reviews. Dell EMC SC Series is rated 8.0, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell EMC SC Series writes "The performance was staggering and more than what we paid for". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". Dell EMC SC Series is most compared with Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell EMC SC Series vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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