NetApp AFF A800 vs Pure Storage FlashArray //X90
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The NetApp AFF A800 was NetApp's first end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash storage system, pairing internal NVMe SSDs with NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) front-end connectivity. The Pure Storage FlashArray //X90 was Pure's highest-performing all-NVMe flash array of the R2/R3 generation.
| NetApp AFF A800 | Pure Storage FlashArray //X90 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | NetApp | Pure Storage |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2018 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 3U rack |
| Controller configuration | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure | Dual active-active controllers in 3U enclosure |
| Processor | Dual Intel Xeon Skylake processors per controller | — |
| Memory | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 48x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 4U chassis, plus NS224 shelves | — |
| Supported drives | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) | — |
| Maximum raw capacity | Up to 316PB in a 24-node cluster | — |
| Host connectivity | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC | — |
| Storage protocols | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB | — |
| Clustering | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | — |
| Management | NetApp ONTAP 9 | Pure1 and Purity GUI |
| Operating system | — | Pure Storage Purity//FA |
| Raw capacity | — | Up to 1.3PB raw |
| Effective capacity | — | Up to 4.3PB effective with data reduction |
| Drive media | — | NVMe DirectFlash Modules (9.1TB, 18.2TB) |
| Connectivity | — | 32Gb/16Gb FC, 25GbE/10GbE iSCSI, and NVMe-oF |
| Nvram | — | Dual internal NVRAM modules |
| Data reduction | — | Inline deduplication and compression |
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