Pure Storage FlashArray Pricing

“It seemed more expensive but overall with the no cost upgrades the long term investment makes it less expensive than it seems up front.”

“Initially, the price was outside of the budget until we worked with the sales team to come below our budget.”

“It's expensive for the price, but it might not be expensive if considering the good dedup ratio.”

“This platform is worth pushing the budget for if you're on the small end, and if you're using EMC it's worth switching from their all flash product. … It's nice to just not worry about disk io problems anymore.

Cost: We use other storage for tier 3/low priority data simply due to cost.”

“However, we have also been able to impress our sustainability groups with the amount of power we have saved and cost savings we have made.

Cost saving is particularly important to us as we are...”

“It was a little bit more expensive up front, but worth it in the long term.”

“But in the end, the performance was worth the cost.”

“All-flash storage is expensive, and full-featured all-flash, like the FlashArray, is even more expensive. … The price curve for storage has reached the point where any enterprise, even smaller ones, should be considering all-flash storage arrays first.”

“The array is somewhat "expensive" when you are comparing to many other arrays, however, when you consider our total cost included 5 years of support, the ability to upgrade and very high performing... … You may be concerned about the price or have sticker shock, however the investment is well worth it in simplicity, ease of use and speed to getting things done.”

“Pure Storage is expensive, but worth the premium.”

“Positive impact is the cost savings on the SQL licensing due to the performance gain Negative impact is the array itself is very expensive.”