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Uncovering Dell EMC’s PowerStore B.S. (Bogus Statements)

Pure Storage

In fact, Pure discussed the topic of scale-up or scale-out way back in 2014. Resource Balancer only uses capacity-free space to determine where to place the new volume.¹³ This is why PowerStore can support different models with different capacities in the same “cluster,” because data is located only on one appliance at a time.

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Does Performance Through Failure Matter to You?

Pure Storage

” was originally published in 2014. Beyond unplanned downtime (which we agree is 0.001% or less for any 5-9s array), users experience a much larger amount of planned downtime: array software updates, capacity upgrades, controller upgrades, etc…. Does Performance Through Failure Matter to You?