NetApp NVMe AFF A800 vs SolidFire comparison

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NetApp NVMe AFF A800 and SolidFire are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked #23 with an average rating of 9.0, while SolidFire is ranked #31. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 holds a 1.2% mindshare in AFS, compared to SolidFire’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SolidFire users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

SolidFire and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 are two competitive storage solutions. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 has the upper hand due to its advanced features and higher user satisfaction.

Features: SolidFire is recognized for its scalable architecture, consistent performance, and lower investment costs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is noted for exceptional speed, advanced data protection features, and feature richness.

Room for Improvement: SolidFire may enhance its analytics capabilities, integration options, and management tools. Users of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 suggest better management tools, enhanced support documentation, and simplified deployment processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolidFire is known for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. NetApp NVMe AFF A800, though more complex to deploy, compensates with excellent support services.

Pricing and ROI: SolidFire offers competitive pricing and good ROI, making it attractive to budget buyers. NetApp NVMe AFF A800, although more expensive, is seen as worth the investment for its high performance and advanced features, providing better long-term value.

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Everpure FlashArray

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Everpure FlashArray is 6.4%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is 1.2%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolidFire is 1.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Everpure FlashArray	6.4%
NetApp NVMe AFF A800	1.2%
SolidFire	1.7%
Other	90.7%

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Cristian Ion

Senior Information Technology Engineer at Eta2u

All-flash storage has unified my clients’ workloads and has reduced TCO through efficient data services

The pricing and licensing of Everpure FlashArray is a problem because Everpure is considered more expensive than competitors. IBM, Lenovo, and Dell are more aggressive on prices. It is a very complicated market, especially now, and I understand the prices are higher at Everpure because of the software and all the enhancements it has. However, in this competitive market, we have a big problem selling to customers that are on a tight budget. A product with better pricing would be a win in the end. The RC or C20, for example, was a very good product that I could sell more easily than other options. Everpure FlashArray//C is sufficient for most workloads and virtualization workloads if you do not have very large databases. A product like that helps, and perhaps a new product in the future that is a little cheaper than the current options would be a possibility to gain more market share. I see the return on investment clearly from using Everpure FlashArray, but the challenge is selling it to customers for the first time. There are many customers who fall in the sweet spot where they are too small for an X or even a C model. They need something a little cheaper, they have the money for a cheaper version, and they need the performance of a Pure system. These customers could be more easily approached if Everpure offers a version of a local device in the future that is even cheaper than the C-class. I am trying now to help customers understand the concept behind AG1. I know that AG1 is not profitable if capacity is less than 50 terabytes. However, some customers would be very willing to pay for 25 terabytes in a cloud operated by Pure and to have it accessible with very good speed. We will see what the future brings.

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Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

Has improved data efficiency and application performance while supporting encryption and fast access to imaging workloads

We use it quite extensively because with this we have more space and the information can be read without wasting time. We are satisfied with this. The performance is quite good. We don't have any issues regarding the applications that use fat clients. It helps prevent being hacked, and so far we don't have any issues. We can do the encryption of the data. The solution performs quite well. It helps us maintain our systems. Since we have many applications that use images for streaming, it works exceptionally well. We don't have any issues, and this helps us with the service we provide to the hospital.

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Ramil Cerrada

Solution lead at Globe Mobile

A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance

The most significant benefit lies in its exceptional performance, driven by its Flash-based architecture. This enhances routing speed and, consequently, database performance. The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The Pure Storage customer service is by far the best part of the product and organization."

"The administration is very easy and quite minimal, the performance is very good, the installation is pretty straightforward, and technical support is good."

"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."

"The support has been very good from Pure Storage FlashArray."

"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."

"What I appreciate most about Everpure FlashArray is that it performs compression and deduplication fantastically."

"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."

"It does everything they say it will do: It's very cost-effective compared to other big players, integrates very well with VMware, is tiny so we're saving power and space in the data center, and it's really easy for us to manage."

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"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."

"In summary, this is a good product, it is serving our purpose well, I am satisfied with it, and I absolutely recommend it for others."

"We find the product to be very flexible."

"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."

"Low latency is the most valuable feature."

"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."

"The most valuable features are stability and performance."

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"SolidFire has seamless performance for the nodes and extensions. I also like the tool’s scalability. The product’s performance does not get affected when we scale either up or down. This is not the case with other products."

"The difference between SolidFire and other storage is that it is a stand alone storage; no one has that good storage software or that scalability and performance."

"SolidFire is one of the products that does have great APIs right out-of-the-box; it works great, and the tools and the other stuff seem to work a little better right out-of-the-box than the ONTAP stuff does, C-Mode."

"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."

"All those solutions just didn't compare with what we could do with SolidFire in terms of performance, support, product stability."

"Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes."

"One of the most valuable thing aspect of the solution is the fact that it's all in one and all in a very small physical footprint."

"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."

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Cons

"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."

"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."

"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."

"I would recommend improvements in the graphical user interface, specifically a detailed hardware view that would allow us to see the individual drives and individual controllers more easily, as currently, they are presenting only a higher-level view."

"It falls far short of protocol support."

"Once, before Pure went public, we were a member of their customer advisory board and beta tested replication. One requested enhancement yet to manifest is the scheduling of snapshot replications."

"They need to find another way of doing data protection, RAID is not working very well."

"It doesn’t provide enough information on performance analytics. For example, Nimble Storage has Infosight, which provides data; Pure Storage doesn’t have an equivalent."

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"The cost of the solution is quite high."

"The product’s UI could be better."

"The technical support has room for improvement."

"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."

"Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best."

"Stability is an area with a certain shortcoming where the solution needs to improve"

"The initial setup is complex."

"Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial."

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"The upgrade process could be better."

"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."

"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."

"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."

"For people using FC SAN, SolidFire is not an option because of the interface."

"We've had issues with the stability of our platform."

"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."

"The upcoming release is supposed to have much richer VMware virtual volume (VVOL) support, which is something we're very interested in."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."

"You can pay extra for Evergreen support, which gives you free upgrades when new features are introduced."

"We are finding the TCO of flash to be lower than SSD implementations."

"We purchased a license to use this solution and we pay for the storage ourselves."

"Because the price is a bit higher than other products, the data reduction equalizes the price with amount of the data reduction."

"There should be quite a bit of reduction of TCO with just licensing (and stuff) because we run the VM environment off it."

"Pure Storage FlashArray's pricing is very competitive."

"We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."

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"There are licenses for the use of this solution, such as commercial licenses."

"The solution is expensive."

"Considering the requirements and the situation, I don't feel that this is an expensive product."

"Though NetApp NVMe AFF A800 may seem like a highly-priced product, it is not extremely expensive."

"I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten."

"We would probably use SolidFire more, except we're getting more bang for our buck with our purchases of ONTAP right now, and the deal we made with NetApp, so it's more of just a cost decision"

"The price of this solution is more expensive than others."

"Based on what I heard from other people, its price was on the higher side."

"It might be considered expensive, but when evaluating performance, it represents good value online because you pay for what you get."

"On a scale where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the solution between three and four. It is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Outsourcing Company

10%

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	74
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	161

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Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

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Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	17

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashArray?

The only thing I think could be improved is price. The price is the main concern for our customers.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp NVMe AFF A800?

The solution is affordable.

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For NVMe, the reporting and consolidation dashboard could be improved. The dashboard is not user-friendly. It should ...

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

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Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is recognized for delivering low latency and reliable management interfaces. It provides stability, encryption, and easy initial setup, with management tools including APIs, GUI, and CLI. Users value its efficiency in data handling and rapid response times.

The NetApp NVMe AFF A800 has earned recognition for its low latency, rapid input/output operations, and reliable management interfaces. It's appreciated for straightforward setup, encryption, and mature management tools that offer versatility in APIs, GUI, and CLI. Users find it enhances application performance with efficient data handling and quicker response times. Its flexibility in handling storage capabilities is an asset, yet it requires improvements in terms of cost, dashboard usability, and technical support. Additionally, performance lacks behind competitors in raw IOPS and the architecture is not optimized for high parallelism, with integration into hybrid cloud systems needing enhancement.

What are the standout features?

Low Latency: Provides rapid I/O for demanding applications.
Mature Management Tools: Includes APIs, GUI, and CLI for flexible management.
Data Tiering: Ensures efficient storage and retrieval.
Encryption: Offers robust data security features.
Flexibility: Supports SAN or NAS configurations as needed.

What benefits do users experience?

Efficient Data Handling: Boost application performance with quicker response times.
Reliable Management Interface: Simplifies storage management with mature tools.
High Application Performance: Enhances application operations with low latency.
Storage Capability: Versatile for database, video surveillance, and more.
Flexibility: Adapts easily to enterprise environments and application needs.

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is tailored for use in databases, video surveillance, and comprehensive enterprise applications. It finds application in data centers, transaction systems, mail infrastructures, and virtual environments, supporting Oracle and providing data security. Its use extends to high-performance computing in research, VMware support, and cloud storage, effectively serving as SAN or NAS, and supporting application servers and clusters tailored to enterprise demands.

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SolidFire stands out for its QoS features, scalability, and user-friendly experience, making it a trusted choice for enhancing VDI environments with reliable IOPS allocation.

SolidFire offers a robust architecture that allows seamless node control, supporting dynamic data centers effectively. Its integration with platforms like OpenStack via RESTful APIs, along with efficient auto support and high performance using flash architecture, makes it suitable for demanding workloads. Its compact design and swift deployment make it appealing for diverse environments. However, users suggest improvements in IOPS allocation clarity, purchasing guidance, and reporting options. Additional fiber channel support, enhanced multi-tenancy, and improved IPv6 configuration are also desired. The platform's integration and compatibility could benefit from cloud support and protocol diversity. While its initial cost is high, which can be challenging for smaller setups, there is also feedback on enhancing node management and the upgrade process.

What are SolidFire's most significant features?

QoS Features: Prioritize and allocate IOPS to enhance VDI environments.
Scalability: Supports seamless node control for dynamic data centers.
RESTful APIs: Integrates smoothly with platforms like OpenStack.
Flash Architecture: Ensures performance in demanding workloads.
Compact Design: Facilitates quick deployment across environments.

What benefits might reviews highlight?

IOPS Allocation: Enhances performance in virtualized settings.
Integration Capabilities: Seamless blend with existing infrastructure.
Deployment Ease: Swift setup process in heterogeneous environments.
Node Control: Simplifies management within data centers.

SolidFire is predominantly utilized in hyper-converged environments catering to workloads in ESX and Hyper-V settings. It functions as an on-premises VMware provisioning tool, elevating software-defined data centers with agile storage options. Employed in private cloud settings for high-tier flash storage, it supports iSCSI connections for SSD disk allocation and serves as a block storage solution. Organizations leverage SolidFire for cloud operations, virtualization, and Oracle RAC implementations, indicating its adaptability and strength in supporting critical infrastructures.

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