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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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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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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.