NetApp AFF C800 vs Pure Storage FlashBlade //E
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The NetApp AFF C800 is an enterprise capacity-flash storage system pairing high-performance dual controllers with high-density QLC NVMe solid-state storage. The Pure Storage FlashBlade //E is a scale-out unstructured data repository designed to replace secondary disk and tape storage for petabyte-scale file and object archives.
| NetApp AFF C800 | Pure Storage FlashBlade //E | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | NetApp | Pure Storage |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Feb 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 5U modular chassis |
| Controller configuration | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure | — |
| Processor | Dual Intel Xeon processors per controller | — |
| Memory | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 48x internal 2.5-inch NVMe QLC SSDs, expandable with NS224 shelves | — |
| Supported drives | NVMe QLC SSDs (15.3TB, 30.7TB) | — |
| Maximum raw capacity | Up to 106PB in a 24-node cluster | — |
| 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 SaaS platform |
| Chassis form factor | — | 5U modular chassis with compute blades and DirectFlash storage bays |
| Operating system | — | Pure Storage Purity//FB |
| Storage media | — | DirectFlash QLC Modules (up to 75TB per module) |
| Capacity scale | — | Scales from 4PB to tens of petabytes of raw unstructured storage |
| Networking | — | 100GbE Ethernet network fabric |
| Protocols | — | NFS, SMB, S3 Object |
| Data efficiency | — | Built-in compression and thin provisioning |
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