NetApp AFF C400 vs Pure Storage FlashBlade //S200
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The NetApp AFF C400 is a midrange capacity all-flash storage system engineered to consolidate secondary enterprise applications and virtualized datastores onto cost-effective QLC NVMe media. The Pure Storage FlashBlade //S200 is an efficiency-focused scale-out file and object storage system tailored for general unstructured data, software build farms, and secondary analytics repositories.
| NetApp AFF C400 | Pure Storage FlashBlade //S200 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | NetApp | Pure Storage |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Feb 2023 | Jun 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 5U modular chassis |
| Controller configuration | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure | — |
| Processor | Intel Xeon processors with dedicated crypto/compression offload | Single socket Intel Xeon processors per blade module |
| Memory | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM | — |
| Drive bays | Connects to NS224 NVMe drive shelves (up to 144 NVMe SSDs per HA pair) | — |
| Supported drives | NVMe QLC SSDs (15.3TB, 30.7TB) | — |
| Maximum raw capacity | Up to 71PB in a 24-node cluster | Scalable across multiple 5U chassis to petabyte scale |
| Host connectivity | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC | — |
| Storage protocols | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB | — |
| Clustering | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) | — |
| Management | NetApp ONTAP 9 | Pure1 and Purity REST API |
| Chassis form factor | — | 5U modular chassis supporting up to 10 compute blades and 40 DFMs |
| Operating system | — | Pure Storage Purity//FB |
| Storage media | — | DirectFlash QLC Modules (24.7TB, 49TB, 75TB) |
| Networking | — | 100GbE QSFP28 uplink interfaces |
| Protocols | — | NFS, SMB, S3 Object |
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