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

Intuitive, Evergreen® Experience Pure Storage® FlashArray//C™ lets you consolidate workloads with
• All-flash NVMe Evergreen Storage consistent all-flash NVMe performance. You’ll get forward-thinking
with data reduction, built for
data protection—at a lower TCO than hybrid storage.
99.9999% availability, replication,
and cloud portability.
Today, most business-critical applications run on high-performance all-flash
Hyper-consolidation storage arrays, but some applications still use hybrid flash and legacy disk
• Consolidate massive data stores systems. These legacy systems suffer from inconsistent performance,
with up to 8.9PB effective in a
complex management tools, and an architecture which impairs innovators.
three-, six-, or nine-rack unit.
FlashArray//C provides a all-flash foundation for databases, test and
Performance development, multisite disaster recovery, data protection, and content
• Predictable, consistent latency repositories. Your organization can easily improve business continuity with
as low as 3ms, suitable for
business-critical workloads Pure Storage ActiveCluster™ fully symmetric active/active bidirectional
• NVMe and NVME-oF synchronous replication solution, which provides RPO zero and automatic
(Fibre Channel, RoCE, TCP) transparent failover for RTO zero—and supports both Fibre Channel (FC)
and TCP/IP environments.
Built-in Symmetric Clustering
• ActiveCluster™ provides zero RPO Consolidate Workloads and Large Data Stores
and RTO, is easy to use, and comes
Pure Storage FlashArray//C densities scale from 590TB to 8.9PB effective
built-in at no extra cost.
capacity in compact three- to six-rack unit arrays, and deliver consistent 100%

Better TCO NVMe performance. You can now consolidate production workloads, test/dev,

• Pair hybrid storage economics disaster recovery, backup and restore data, and more on a single array. Let your
with less management overhead, IT organization drive simplicity into your infrastructure and eliminate complex
power, cooling, and data-center siloed approaches to deploying these applications across multiple disparate
real estate. hybrid disk-based solutions.

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

//RC20 Up to 918TB/835TiB effective capacity* 3U; 720-888 watts (typical-peak)

Up to 260TB/236TiB raw capacity 100-127 volts (input voltage range)
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 (typical–peak)

Up to 482TB/438TiB raw capacity 200–240 volts (input voltage range)
97.7 lbs (44.3Kg) fully loaded
5.12” x 15.75” x 29.72” chassis

//C70 Up to 4.8PB/4.4PiB effective capacity* 3U-6U; 1068–1424 watts (typical–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 (typical–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.

1 Pure Storage has been named A Leader again in the 2023 Gartner ® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage. This marks the fourth consecutive year being positioned highest for Ability to Execute 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. Disclaimer: GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, Magic Quadrant is a
registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications, and does not
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statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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