Pure Storage
FlashArray & FlashBlade

From 150µs all-flash block storage to petabyte-scale AI infrastructure — Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade deliver enterprise performance, 99.9999% availability, and Evergreen nondisruptive upgrades. The last storage systems you'll ever need.

DirectFlash — Proprietary Flash Architecture

Pure Storage's DirectFlash Modules replace commodity SSDs with flash media purpose-built for enterprise storage. Purity OS manages DirectFlash globally — unlocking 20% more usable NAND capacity, 6× better reliability than HDDs, and 3× better reliability than SSDs, while continuously improving density year over year.

Evergreen Architecture — Zero Planned Downtime

Controllers, DirectFlash Modules, and chassis components upgrade independently, nondisruptively, and data-in-place across generations. No planned maintenance windows. No data migrations. No forklift replacements. Evergreen//Forever subscriptions include generational hardware refreshes — making FlashBlade the last storage system you need to buy.

SafeMode Snapshots — Security On by Default

SafeMode Snapshots are enabled by default on every Pure Storage system, protecting data from ransomware deletion even if admin credentials are compromised. The full data protection suite — snapshots, replication, encryption, ransomware remediation — is included without additional licensing. No hardening guide required.

AI-Native Storage Infrastructure

FlashBlade//S R2 delivers 20–25% better performance than competitors for RAG, training, and inference workloads. FlashArray//XL R5 leads in IOPS density for database and analytics workloads. Pure Storage is the reference architecture for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and AI-scale GPU cluster storage.

Pure1 AIOps — Intelligent Management at Any Scale

Pure1 provides AI-powered fleet management, predictive analytics, and proactive recommendations across all Pure Storage systems. Unlike legacy storage management, Pure1's management complexity decreases as fleet size grows — more systems means more data for the AI, not more overhead for the team.

Sustainability — Smaller Footprint, Less Power

Pure Storage systems consume significantly less power and floor space than equivalent-capacity legacy and disk-based systems. FlashBlade//E in particular delivers all-flash economics at disk acquisition cost while reducing power consumption, cooling load, and e-waste — supporting ESG commitments alongside IT efficiency goals.

One OS.
Every array.
Always improving.

Purity OS is the common operating environment across FlashArray (Purity//FA) and FlashBlade (Purity//FB). Software updates are delivered nondisruptively — adding new features, efficiency improvements, and security enhancements to existing arrays without downtime or licensing fees.

Pure Storage FlashBlade//S

FlashBlade//S R2 — the AI-native scale-out storage platform delivering 1,200 TB per blade, 20–25% better AI workload performance than competitors, and 400GbE networking for GPU-scale infrastructure.