Pure Storage FlashArray //E Capacity Array

The Pure Storage FlashArray //E is an all-flash storage array purpose-built for capacity-tier workloads, delivering the economics historically associated with spinning disk while eliminating the latency, power draw, and mechanical failure modes inherent to HDD-based systems. Built on Pure Storage's Evergreen architecture, the //E uses QLC (Quad-Level Cell) NAND flash media combined with DirectFlash technology, which bypasses conventional SSD firmware to allow Purity//FA operating system direct access to raw flash. This architectural approach maximises usable capacity, extends media longevity, and enables consistent sub-millisecond latency even under sustained mixed workloads typical of secondary and tertiary storage tiers.

The FlashArray //E is managed through the same Purity//FA operating system and Pure1 cloud-based management and analytics platform that governs the performance-focused FlashArray //X and //XL families, providing a unified operational model across an organisation's entire Pure Storage estate. Inline always-on data reduction — encompassing deduplication, compression, and pattern removal — operates without user configuration and without performance penalty, contributing to effective capacity ratios that routinely exceed raw physical capacity. The array supports synchronous and asynchronous replication, ActiveCluster for zero-RPO/zero-RTO stretched clustering, and NVMe-oF, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI host connectivity, ensuring it integrates into existing SAN fabrics without protocol compromise.

Target environments for the FlashArray //E include large-scale backup and recovery repositories, data lakes, compliance and regulatory archive tiers, dev/test clone farms, analytics staging areas, and virtualisation platforms where per-TB acquisition economics are paramount but workload latency requirements rule out spinning disk. The platform supports non-disruptive controller upgrades and capacity expansions under the Evergreen//Forever subscription model, meaning the array hardware investment is not bound to a fixed refresh cycle and organisations can add capacity or upgrade controllers without planned downtime or data migrations.

Ideal for

• Backup and recovery target repositories replacing high-density SAS/SATA disk shelves, benefiting from always-on deduplication and compression to maximise effective retention capacity
• Secondary virtualisation clusters running VMs with moderate IOPS requirements where per-VM storage economics are critical and sub-millisecond latency still improves application responsiveness versus HDD
• Data lake and analytics staging tiers ingesting large sequential datasets from ETL pipelines, where flash read throughput accelerates query preparation and data transformation jobs
• Dev/test environments leveraging FlashArray //E space-efficient clones and snapshots to provision hundreds of full-fidelity database or application copies from production data with minimal additional capacity consumption
• Compliance and long-term retention archives where data must remain online and rapidly accessible for audit or e-discovery, replacing nearline disk that introduces unpredictable latency on retrieval
• Consolidated mixed-workload storage for remote or branch office deployments requiring a single scalable all-flash platform that covers both file (via NFS/SMB through FlashBlade integration patterns) and block protocols without a separate disk tier

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.