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

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are needed to build a system to meet any given performance and capacity requirements. At Pure//Accelerate ® 2023, we put a stake in the ground that 2028 would be the last year when new storage systems built around HDDs would be sold for enterprise use. Consumer (PCs and mobile), not enterprise, SSDs comprise the volume market.

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The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash

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In fact, the technology dates back to the 1950s, when IBM first constructed a server farm about the size of two refrigerators with a storage capacity of 3.75MB. By this time, HDDs were primarily being used as secondary workloads that were more capacity- and cost-constrained than primary workloads. But that’s a far cry from today.