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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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The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash. by Pure Storage Blog By 2028, practically no new all-hard disk drive (HDD) storage systems will be sold for enterprise data center computing. Data Center Capacity: Direct and to the Point It’s a different story for flash. Will the Last HDD Seller Please Turn Out the Lights?

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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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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. Following the volume, key innovations for COTS SSD technology are driven by the consumer market, which values low cost and lower capacities, not enterprise requirements.