NetApp AFF A70 vs Pure Storage FlashBlade //S
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The NetApp AFF A70 is a high-performance midrange all-flash array delivering active-active controller processing for enterprise applications, mixed workloads, and private cloud deployments. The Pure Storage FlashBlade //S is an enterprise scale-out unstructured data storage platform featuring a disaggregated modular architecture.
| NetApp AFF A70 | Pure Storage FlashBlade //S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | NetApp | Pure Storage |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2024 | Jun 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 5U modular chassis |
| Controller configuration | Dual active-active controllers in 4U enclosure | — |
| Processor | Intel Xeon Scalable multi-core processors per controller | — |
| Memory | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM cache | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 48x internal NVMe SSDs in 4U chassis, plus NS224 expansion shelves | — |
| Supported drives | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB, 30.7TB) | — |
| Maximum raw capacity | Up to 150PB in a 24-node cluster | Scalable from hundreds of terabytes to tens of petabytes across clustered chassis |
| Host connectivity | PCIe expansion slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb/64Gb FC | — |
| Storage protocols | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3 | — |
| Clustering | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | — |
| Management | NetApp ONTAP 9 | Pure1 cloud-based management platform |
| Chassis form factor | — | 5U modular chassis with up to 10 blade controller slots and 40 DirectFlash bays |
| Operating system | — | Pure Storage Purity//FB |
| Storage media | — | QLC DirectFlash Modules (DFMs: 24.7TB, 49TB, 75TB) |
| Networking | — | Dual Fabric Modules providing 100GbE / 400GbE network interfaces |
| Protocols | — | NFSv3, SMB, S3 Object |
| Architecture | — | Disaggregated compute and storage modular architecture |
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