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The SSD Trap: How a Storage Solution’s Reliance on SSDs Can Impact You (Part 1 of 2)

Pure Storage

The SSD Trap: How a Storage Solution’s Reliance on SSDs Can Impact You (Part 1 of 2) by Pure Storage Blog As quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash media continues to expand its prevalence into storage systems, we’re seeing increased cost-effectiveness of SSDs and with that, a drop in the deployment of traditional HDDs.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. 2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. Haynes 2012.

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Pure Storage Architecture 101: Built-in Performance and Availability

Pure Storage

Traditional Storage Array Approaches Storage arrays primarily take one of two approaches to address this challenge: active/active or scale-out. Active-Active: Advantages and Disadvantages Active/active allows both controllers to simultaneously serve IO to hosts. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

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What Science Really Says About Facial Recognition Accuracy and Bias Concerns

Security Industry Association

By far, the source most cited by media and policymakers as evidence of bias in facial recognition is Gender Shades , a paper published by a grad student researcher at MIT Media Lab in 2018. A 2012 FBI Study Analyzing Now-Obsolete Algorithms. Let’s take a look. The Problem With MIT’s “Gender Shades” Study.

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What Science Really Says About Facial Recognition Accuracy and Bias Concerns

Security Industry Association

By far, the source most cited by media and policymakers as evidence of bias in facial recognition is Gender Shades , a paper published by a grad student researcher at MIT Media Lab in 2018. A 2012 FBI Study Analyzing Now-Obsolete Algorithms. Let’s take a look. The Problem With MIT’s “Gender Shades” Study.