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SSD vs. HDD Speeds: What’s the Difference?

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HDD devices are slower, but they have a large storage capacity. Even with the higher speed capacity, an SSD has its disadvantages over an HDD, depending on your application. To determine the actual difference in speed, you’ll need to download benchmarking tools. How to Benchmark SSD vs. HDD. Does SSD Read Faster than HDD?

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Improve Open Source Database Operations with AWS Outposts by 4x

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To benchmark the performance of FlashArray, we compared it against AWS EBS. . In this blog post, we’ll dive into the benefits for databases (we used MySQL in our test) when using AWS Outposts with FlashArray. The post Improve Open Source Database Operations with AWS Outposts by 4x appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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How Mercedes F1 and Pure Storage Lead the Way with Sustainability

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But Mercedes F1 is actively working to minimize its impact with gold-standard offsetting measures. . “ Learn more about Mercedes’ Sustainability policy >> Pure Storage: Engineered for Max Capacity in a Smaller Footprint. All-flash systems, as opposed to hybrid systems, reduce high power and cooling costs and wasted capacity.

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Consolidate Oracle Workloads with FlashArray//XL

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With two DirectFlash expansion shelves, they scale to maximum effective capacities of 3.53PB and 5.5PB in a dense 11U of rack space. In such situations, the IO requirements of the database can exceed the capacity provided by a single FlashArray//X90. . Figure 1: . There are some downsides to this approach, though.