We see that in networking gear, servers, and even processors. We're amid a trend where vendors are moving cybersecurity features directly into devices that live in the infrastructure. The accelerator offloads much of the array’s data compression workload to an FPGA-based device that handles the compression, freeing up the system’s processor for other tasks. Given that a storage array spends almost all its time moving data from one location to another, the performance increases should readily be apparent to users with high I/O demands.įurther performance gains can be achieved using Pure’s DirectCompress Accelerator, which the company introduced earlier this year. PCIe 4.0 doubles the speed of the array's PCIe bus, while the adoption of DDR5 speeds memory access by up to 80%. The new fourth-generation Xeon processors bring PCIe 4.0 and DDR5 to Pure’s FlashArray. Much of the performance boost arrives courtesy of Intel's new Sapphire Rapid processors. Pure Storage //X & //C R4 Upgrades Pure Storage

Possessing up to 20 times higher capacity at one-fifth the space and power, along with 85% less e-waste and 40% lower TCO over six years, but at the same acquisition cost as all-disk storage, the Pure//E is very compelling. Pure says the FlashArray//E comes in at less than $0.20/GB raw. The FlashArray//E provides up to 4PB of effective capacity. The //E in the product name stands for 'efficiency,' and it targets high-capacity data repository applications, a market dominated today by mechanical HDDs. Pure is using its new 75TB DFM drives to build its new high-capacity FlashArray//E system, announced at Accelerate. They went on to say that the price-per-gigabyte would be less than $0.15/GB. The company showed a chart predicting its DFM modules will approach 300TB of capacity in 2026. As it pushes its agenda to replace new HDDs by 2028, one of the key claims is that density is increasing nearly as fast as costs are dropping. Pure’s DFMe, which uses QLC-flash, also brings system-level per-gigabyte pricing to a point where it's competitive with comparable HDD-based storage systems.

In a time of corporate sustainability metrics and where data centers consume up to 20% of an enterprise's power budget, that's compelling. Pure’s engineering teams have built a device that doesn't just provide greater reliability and density compared to HDDs it's better than the off-the-shelf SSDs used by its competitors. Pure’s DirectFlash Module enables lower TCO by increasing density and reliability and lowering energy usage. But the story extends beyond just density, however. The company offers both TLC and QLC NAND-based versions of the device. Pure Storage’s DirectFlash Module (DFM) enables Pure to deliver the most compelling alternative to enterprise HDD-based storage on the market, an alternative whose attractiveness is rapidly increasing.Īt its Accelerate event, Pure announced its new 75TB DFM, giving Pure the highest-capacity flash storage device on the market. Pure Storage is one of only two mainstream storage vendors that builds its storage modules (the other is IBM, which takes a different architectural approach to Pure’s).

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