FlashArray//C

The Perfect Balance of Price and Performance

Meet the new FlashArray//C20, extended to lower capacities for smaller workloads and edge deployments.

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Equal Parts Performance and Capacity

FlashArray//C™ is the perfect home for your business-critical workloads and data, with 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and consistent single-millisecond latency.

All-Flash for All Workloads

FlashArray//C, the world's first, enterprise-grade, all-QLC flash storage array, now tackles even more business-critical applications that don't require sub-millisecond latency. FlashArray//C is the perfect platform for your operational databases, workload consolidation, BCDR, and file workloads, including VMware, PACs, and file stores.

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Extreme Capacity and Energy Efficiency

Gain the ultimate in space and energy efficiency, with up to 75 TB QLC drives—the world’s largest. FlashArray//C requires 95% less space compared to hybrid disk arrays and consumes 85% less energy compared to all-flash arrays.

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Truly Unified Block and File Platform

FlashArray™ unified block and file is a radically different architecture that increases flexibility and removes any need to preplan your deployment, enabling you to configure and consume global resources dynamically, and dramatically simplifying how workloads are consolidated.

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Ransomware-savvy Data Protection

Securely store all your snapshots and backup data on FlashArray//C. Stay prepared for ransomware attacks by locking down recovery data with SafeMode™. Even hackers with admin privileges can’t hold your data hostage.

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Built-in Enterprise Data Services

Maximise efficiency and security with up to 10:1 deduplication, always-on data protection, and truly non-disruptive upgrades. Purity delivers enterprise services—including ActiveCluster™ for replication and SafeMode for ransomware—at no additional cost.

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Building the World's Most Efficient Data Centre

Learn how FlashArray delivers up to 40% more performance in 51% less rack space.

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FlashArray//C90

Effective Capacity

Up to 9.2 PB / 8.4 PiB

Raw Capacity

Up to 2.5 PB / 2.2 PiB

Physical

3U–9U
1191–1530 watts (nominal–peak)
200–240 volts (input voltage range)
97.7–185.4 lbs (44.3–84.1 kg) fully loaded
5.12”–15.75” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis

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FlashArray//C70

Effective Capacity

Up to 4.8 PB / 4.4 PiB

Raw Capacity

Up to 1.3 PB / 1.1 PiB

Physical

3U-6U
1068–1424 watts (nominal–peak)
200–240 volts (input voltage range)
97.7–185.4 lbs (44.3–84.1 kg) fully loaded
5.12”–15.75” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis

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FlashArray//C50

Effective Capacity

Up to 1.6 PB / 1.4 PiB

Raw Capacity

Up to 482 TB / 438 TiB

Physical

3U
1016–1276 watts (nominal–peak)
200–240 volts (input voltage range)
95 lbs (43.1Kg) fully loaded
5.12” x 15.75” x 29.72” chassis

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FlashArray//C20

Effective Capacity

Up to 918 TB / 835 TiB

Raw Capacity

Up to 260 TB / 236 TiB

Physical

3U
1016–1276 watts (nominal–peak)
200–240 volts (input voltage range)
90.9 (41.2 kg) fully loaded
5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis

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FlashArray//C DirectFlash Shelf

Effective Capacity

Up to 6.8 PB / 6.2 PiB

Raw Capacity

Up to 2.1 PB / 1.86 PiB

Physical

3U
685 - 783 watts (nominal–peak)
200–240 volts (input voltage range)
90.9 lbs (41.2 kg) fully loaded
5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72” chassis

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What is value-optimised storage?

In small offices and large enterprises alike, the act of setting up a local storage solution is often a balancing act between cost, capacity, and performance. Value-optimised storage is data storage optimised for cost per capacity ($/GB). Value-optimised storage solutions are designed to accommodate business-critical workloads, virtual machines, backups, email, and test/dev environments.

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1. What are the benefits of value-optimised storage?

The benefits of deploying your own value-optimised storage solution include:

Reduced storage costs
The ability to hyper-consolidate large volumes of data
The flexibility to optimise storage costs by storage tier
Optimal storage capacity and performance for business-critical workloads

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2. What are value-optimised storage use cases?

Value-optimised storage is best used for applications, such as:

Business-critical databases
Policy-based VM-tiering
Disaster recovery for less performance-sensitive workloads
Backups, snapshots, and mirroring
Multi-cloud test/dev workload consolidation

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3. What is QLC Flash?

Quad-level cell (QLC) flash is a high-capacity NAND memory technology that delivers a per-terabyte cost that matches or beats hard-disk drives (HDDs).

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4. What are the differences: QLC vs. SLC vs. MLC vs. TLC?

QLC flash is the latest in a long trend of squeezing more bits per cell within a NAND flash device. Here’s a brief overview of how the technology has evolved over time:

Single-level cell (SLC) flash: One bit per cell, two possible voltage states
Multi-level cell (MLC) flash: Two bits per cell, four possible voltage states
Triple-level cell (TLC) flash: Three bits per cell, eight possible voltage states
Quad-level cell (QLC) flash: Four bits per cell, 16 possible voltage states

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“The flexibility to shift data workloads between our FlashArray //X and //C is huge,” says Alarcón. “No matter what happens with regulations or customer needs, we can optimise our data processes using the best array for the job.”

Oscar Alarcón Rodríguez

Director of Infrastructure

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Information Technology Director, AC Milan

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