Pure Storage FlashBlade vs StorPool comparison

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and StorPool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. StorPool Report (Updated: June 2025).

Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. StorPool

June 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

8.5

Pure Storage FlashBlade delivers cost savings, efficiency gains, and increased VM density, with returns seen within four years.

Sentiment score

7.3

Organizations reduced TCO using StorPool, benefiting from commodity hardware, increasing gross margin by 15% with favorable cost per GB.

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

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System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

Pure Storage FlashBlade's customer service is praised for expertise but sometimes experiences slower responses due to growth challenges.

Sentiment score

9.2

StorPool excels in customer service with responsive support, expert advice, and quick deployment, ensuring infrastructure optimization and satisfaction.

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.

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

I would rate them an eight out of ten.

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IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

No quotes available

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.8

Pure Storage FlashBlade is praised for its scalability and ease of expansion, satisfying various industries like banking and media.

Sentiment score

8.5

StorPool offers seamless scalability through easy node integration, enhancing performance and capacity without service interruptions across deployments.

Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.

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System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.8

Pure Storage FlashBlade is highly rated for stability, reliability, and performance, with minimal downtime and swift recovery.

Sentiment score

8.1

StorPool offers reliable, stable performance with advanced features like compression, ensuring continuous data protection and commercial advantages.

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

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IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

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Room For Improvement

Users want better cloud integration, support, pricing, efficiency, and improvements in analytics, configuration, and backup for FlashBlade.

StorPool's users seek a more intuitive UI, faster feature rollout, and increased visibility of new functionalities and integrations.

Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Its configuration should be easier.

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IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

No quotes available

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Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade is costlier but valued for performance, ease, and reliability, justifying its comprehensive licensing with included software.

StorPool offers flexible, cost-effective pricing with high performance, scalability, and excellent support, reducing total cost of ownership.

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.

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System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

No quotes available

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Valuable Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers high performance, scalability, and ease of use with excellent data protection and seamless integration for large storage needs.

StorPool provides scalable, high-performance storage with robust management, redundancy, and stability, ideal for complex, global deployments.

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

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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

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IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

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Categories and Ranking

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

7th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (16th), File and Object Storage (6th)

StorPool

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

20th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 4.2%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StorPool is 2.5%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Featured Reviews

Eric Black

Solutions Architect at Recovery Point Systems

The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us

The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.

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reviewer1721697

Managing Director at CloudScale365, Inc.

Great service and support with a constant addition of new features

As of now, the product has been working really well for us. They keep updating and launching new features. Their support has been great and have always been available. I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them. This is a great product.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

25%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Performing Arts

12%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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?

The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and performance it delivers, including quick response times.

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Its configuration should be easier. There should be easier language for the configuration.

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Overview

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.

Pure Storage

StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.

StorPool has advanced fully-distributed architecture and is arguably the fastest and most efficient block-storage software on the market today. It is the best storage system when building a cloud.

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