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The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash. Will the Last HDD Seller Please Turn Out the Lights?

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by Pure Storage Blog By 2028, practically no new all-hard disk drive (HDD) storage systems will be sold for enterprise data center computing. Meanwhile, HDDs were largely relegated to secondary workloads, where factors like capacity and cost took precedence over speed. The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash.

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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. And with many data centers still leveraging hard disk equipment, there are growing reasons to consider a shift to faster, more efficient, all-flash data storage technology.

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The Three Rs of Data Storage: Resiliency, Redundancy, and Rebuilds

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The Three Rs of Data Storage: Resiliency, Redundancy, and Rebuilds by Pure Storage Blog At our Pure//Accelerate ® conference in June, Pure Storage showed the world some incredible technology with two big announcements. Some of the questions I’ve gotten a lot since those announcements are: Isn’t Pure worried about making modules that big?

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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.