Open-source alternative  ·  Enterprise Storage

Replace Pure Storage FlashArray with TrueNAS Enterprise.

TrueNAS Enterprise on NVMe flash with ZFS inline compression, deduplication, and snapshots. Evergreen-style upgrades through commodity hardware refresh. No Evergreen subscription fees.

You'd keep~R133 200 to ~R266 400/year

Current licence  ·  Enterprise Storage

Pure Storage FlashArray

~R133 200 – ~R266 400/yr

10-user estimate

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TrueNAS Enterprise

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R266 400/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Pure Storage FlashArray's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R133 200/yr

R11 100/month

Per array

With TrueNAS Enterprise

Keep R133 200/yr

Premium

R266 400/yr

R22 200/month

Per array

With TrueNAS Enterprise

Keep R266 400/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Pure Storage FlashArray grows around 10% per year on average. TrueNAS Enterprise hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR118kR236kR353kR471kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R428kR27k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.89M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Pure Storage FlashArrayTrueNAS Enterprise, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.