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Pure Storage
FlashArray//C
Consolidate, accelerate, and protect your data with
economical, all-flash storage.

Intuitive, Evergreen®
Pure Storage® FlashArray//C™ lets you consolidate workloads
Experience
• All-flash NVMe Evergreen
with consistent all-flash NVMe performance. You’ll get forward-
Storage with data reduction, thinking data protection—at a lower TCO than hybrid storage.
built for 99.9999% availability,
replication, and cloud
portability. Today, most business-critical applications run on high-performance all-flash
storage arrays, but some applications still use hybrid flash and legacy disk
Hyper-consolidation
systems. These legacy systems suffer from inconsistent performance, complex
• Consolidate massive data
stores with up to 8.9PB management tools, and an architecture which impairs innovators.
effective in a three-, six-,
FlashArray//C provides a all-flash foundation for databases, test and
or nine-rack unit.
development, multisite disaster recovery, data protection, and content
Performance
repositories. Your organization can easily improve business continuity with
• Predictable, consistent latency
as low as 2ms, suitable for Pure Storage ActiveCluster™ fully symmetric active/active bidirectional
business-critical workloads
synchronous replication solution, which provides RPO zero and automatic
• NVMe and NVME-oF transparent failover for RTO zero—and supports both Fibre Channel (FC) and
(Fibre Channel, RoCE, TCP)
TCP/IP environments.
Built-in Symmetric Clustering
• ActiveCluster™ provides zero
Consolidate Workloads and Large Data Stores
RPO and RTO, is easy to
Pure Storage FlashArray//C densities scale from 590TB to 8.9PB effective
use, and comes built-in at
capacity in compact three- to six-rack unit arrays, and deliver consistent 100%
no extra cost.
NVMe performance. You can now consolidate production workloads, test/dev,
Better TCO disaster recovery, backup and restore data, and more on a single array. Let
• Pair hybrid storage economics your IT organization drive simplicity into your infrastructure and eliminate
with less management
complex siloed approaches to deploying these applications across multiple
overhead, power, cooling, and
disparate hybrid disk-based solutions.
data-center real estate.

Industry Recognition Cloud-based Management

• A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
The Pure1® platform provides simple cloud-based management and effortless
Leader for storage ten times in
predictive support with full-stack analytics and the AI-driven power of Pure1
a row.1
Meta™. Pure1 provides a snapshot catalog of all your backups in one place,
• Certified Net Promoter Score in
the top 1% of B2B Companies
whether the target is another FlashArray™, a FlashBlade®, another NFS target,

by Medallia or a public cloud like Amazon S3.

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Purity: The Software-defined Heart of FlashArray

Purity for FlashArray delivers rich, enterprise-level data services; DirectFlash® global flash management; and Evergreen
improvements with every release. Features such as ActiveCluster™ for business continuity, ActiveDR™ for disaster recovery,
ActiveWorkload for workload migration, VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols), NVMe-oF, Snap to NFS, Purity CloudSnap™, and
SafeMode™ are all examples of new features provided over time with non-disruptive, no-additional-cost Purity upgrades. All
Purity storage services, APIs, and advanced data services are built-in and included with every array.

• Data reduction: Purity averages an industry-leading 5:1 data reduction with a total efficiency of 10:1 (including thin
provisioning).

• Always-on encryption: Purity’s “encrypt everything” approach provides built-in enterprise-grade data security without user
intervention or key management.

• High availability: Purity protects against concurrent dual-drive failures and initiates re-builds automatically within minutes.
Purity also treats performance variability as a failure and uses parity to work around bottlenecks to deliver consistent
latency.

• Unified storage with file services: If you run NAS-based apps in addition to SAN-based enterprise databases, Purity’s
consolidated SAN and NAS capabilities let you avoid the trouble and expense of running two incompatible environments.

• Always-on ransomware remediation: Cost-efficient, portable, SafeMode snapshots prevent cyber attackers from
tampering with or maliciously destroying critical recovery data.

• Intelligent quality of service (QoS): Purity continuously tunes infrastructure using always-on QoS to prevent workloads
from hogging resources and to ensure maximum utilization of the array.

• Faster, more consistent performance: DirectFlash Fabric gives you maximum throughput with microsecond latency that’s
far more predictable than with conventional SSDs.

• On-demand data portability: Quickly and easily move data where they most cost-effectively meet service level
agreements to satisfy your customers: between both physical and virtual machines, between on-premises and the cloud.

Speed Recovery Effortlessly with ActiveCluster and ActiveDR

Make slow recovery a thing of the past with Purity, ActiveCluster, and ActiveDR. ActiveCluster uses synchronous replication
and a symmetric active-active design to deliver zero RPO and zero RTO automatic failovers without user intervention. Unlike
active-passive implementations, Purity ActiveCluster simultaneously serves I/O on the same volume from both sites.

ActiveDR offers continuous data protection that seamlessly replicates application data across almost any distance, with the
lowest possible RPO. ActiveDR radically simplifies remote site recovery with a single failover command, straightforward
failback (re-protect), and non-disruptive disaster recovery testing. With ActiveDR, you can respond quickly to real-world
outages and compliance testing requests with a single click or with a single API/CLI command.

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Secure Data Protection with SafeMode Snapshots

Get flexible backup and recovery built for today’s ever-increasing ransomware threats. Immutable snapshots from
Pure Storage provide simple, built-in, local, and cloud-native protection for FlashArray. FlashArray SafeMode ensures your
snapshots will be available to help you recover from a cyberattack. With SafeMode enabled, your snapshots cannot be
eradicated for a fixed, configurable period, even by someone with admin privileges. Together, Purity Snapshots, Snap-to-
FlashBlade, Snap-to-NFS, and CloudSnap enable free movement of space-efficient copies between FlashArray and FlashBlade
systems, to third-party NFS storage, or to the cloud, respectively.

DirectFlash Innovation
FlashArray is specifically architected for innovators, moving beyond the legacy SSD architectures that have flash pretending to
be a hard disk. Instead, DirectFlash speaks directly to raw NAND with a super-efficient NVMe protocol and leverages NVMe-
oF. DirectFlash includes multiple components:

DirectFlash Module (DFM): DFM is a Pure Storage-designed flash module that connects raw flash directly to the FlashArray
storage via NVMe. Unlike traditional SSDs that use a flash controller or flash translation layer, DFM is just raw flash. This design
removes performance roadblocks of SSDs used by many legacy storage architectures.

DirectFlash software: DirectFlash software manages array I/O globally, for a faster, more efficient architecture. It provides
detailed I/O scheduling and performance management. This makes I/Os deterministic and reduces average latency by
reducing the number of slow I/Os that would often occur in SSD architectures.

DirectFlash Shelf: DirectFlash Shelf is used to add additional NVMe capacity to a FlashArray//C and is external to the array
chassis. Instead, it’s connected to the chassis via NVMe-oF protocol with RDMA over converged (RoCE), leveraging 100Gb/sec
Ethernet. The shelf maintains the ability to support different sizes of DFMs as flash density improves.

DirectFlash Fabric: DirectFlash Fabric lowers network latency dramatically and enables enterprise-class reliability and data
services via shared storage versus DAS. NVMe-oF enables massive optimization between the storage controllers and host
over fast networking: Fibre Channel, RoCE, and TCP. DirectFlash Fabric delivers greater performance and efficiency gains,
including offloading the host CPU.

Evergreen Storage
With Evergreen Storage, you can deploy once and enjoy a subscription to continuous innovation as you expand and improve
performance, capacity, density, and/or features for 10 years or more—all without downtime, performance impact, or data
migrations. Pure Storage has engineered compatibility for future technologies directly into the product via the modular,
stateless architecture of FlashArray. This means you can upgrade non-disruptively and expand the equipment you
already own.

Evergreen programs like Ever Modern and Ever Agile provide full trade-in value when upgrading controllers, giving you the
agility you need to grow and modernize.

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The Capacity Consolidation program keeps your storage dense as you expand, without becoming obsolete. With Evergreen
Storage, you don’t have to re-buy terabytes you already own. Keep your storage simple, evergreen, and dense—and always
meet your business needs. Pure Storage uniquely offers all of our core solutions either as products (CAPEX) or as services
(OPEX) via Evergreen//One™.

Technical Specifications

Capacity Physical
//C20 Up to 918TB/835TiB effective capacity* 3U; 1016–1276 watts (nominal peak)
Up to 260TB/236TiB raw capacity 200–240 volts (input voltage range)
90.9 lbs (41.2 kg) fully loaded
5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis
//C50 Up to 1.6PB/1.4PiB effective capacity* 3U; 1016–1276 watts (nominal–peak)
Up to 482TB/438TiB raw capacity 200–240 volts (input voltage range)
97.7 lbs (44.3Kg) fully loaded
5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis
//C70 Up to 4.8PB/4.4PiB effective capacity* 3U-6U; 1068–1424 watts (nominal–peak)
Up to 1.3PB/1.1PiB raw capacity 200-240 volts (input voltage range)
97.7-185.4 lbs (44.3-84.1 kg) fully loaded
5.12”-15.75” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis
//C90 Up to 8.9PB/8.1PiB effective capacity* 3U-9U; 1191–1530 (nominal–peak)
Up to 2.3PB/2.1PiB raw capacity 200-240 volts (input voltage range)
97.7-185.4 lbs (44.3-84.1 kg) fully loaded
5.12”-15.75” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis
*Effective capacity assumes HA, RAID, and metadata overhead, GB-to-GiB conversion, and includes the benefit of data reduction with always-on inline deduplication, compression, and pattern
removal. Average data reduction is calculated at 5-to-1 and does not include thin provisioning."

Additional Resources
• FlashArray//X™ data sheet

• Purity data sheet

• Pure1 data sheet

• ActiveCluster

** Not all features available at General Availability.

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and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and the 10th year in a row as A Leader. Pure Storage was a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays for the
previous five years. Gartner has retired this latter report and is provided here for historical purposes only.
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