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SSD vs. HDD Speeds: What’s the Difference?

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HDD devices are slower, but they have a large storage capacity. Even with the higher speed capacity, an SSD has its disadvantages over an HDD, depending on your application. To determine the actual difference in speed, you’ll need to download benchmarking tools. How to Benchmark SSD vs. HDD. Does SSD Read Faster than HDD?

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Reach Your Data Resiliency High Score

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Reach Your Data Resiliency High Score by Pure Storage Blog Video gaming used to be an entirely different experience back in the day. It includes a data protection assessment that benchmarks your storage configuration against Pure’s own leading practices built on years of experience and working with our customers. 5 (1 point x 50%) .

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TPUs vs. GPUs: What’s the Difference?

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by Pure Storage Blog Processing units are essential parts of a computer system. In this blog, we’ll compare TPUs versus GPUs in terms of their performance, uses, and trends. GPUs, while powerful, tend to consume more power, especially when operating at maximum capacity. appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. What Is a TPU?

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TPUs vs. GPUs: What’s the Difference?

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by Pure Storage Blog Processing units are essential parts of a computer system. In this blog, we’ll compare TPUs versus GPUs in terms of their performance, uses, and trends. GPUs, while powerful, tend to consume more power, especially when operating at maximum capacity. appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. What Is a TPU?

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Revolutionizing Responsibly: Elevate Your ESG Game with Pure1

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Revolutionizing Responsibly: Elevate Your ESG Game with Pure1 by Pure Storage Blog Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis is a crucial aspect of evaluating an organization’s sustainability and ethical impact. You can read all about it in this blog. Consolidating workloads and optimizing for lower power usage.

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Achieve Energy Savings with Pure1

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Peak metrics are based on Pure1’s benchmarks representing the upper boundary of what your hardware could draw, whereas the actual power metric represents your current power draw. Like the peak metrics, these metrics are also based on Pure’s hardware benchmarks representing an average power draw (again, heat is calculated using power).

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How to Get Started with CrystalDiskMark on a Mac

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CrystalDiskMark is an IT industry-wide recognized tool for benchmarking storage devices. CrystalDiskMark is a benchmarking tool for storage devices. CrystalDiskMark can still benchmark a Mac PC for comparisons against other devices, but it’s best used as a diagnostic and analysis tool for Macs. What Is CrystalDiskMark?CrystalDiskMark