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

Pure Storage

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. Storage devices are benchmarked using read and write actions. Does SSD Read Faster than HDD?

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IOPS vs. Throughput: Why Both Matter

Pure Storage

It’s a standard performance benchmark for solid-state drives, hard drives, flash drives, and network attached storage (NAS) devices. Equally important is to look at throughput (units of data per second)—how data is actually delivered to the arrays in support of real-world application performance. So in short, you should use both.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 31; Updates from DataGrail, Datto, Rubrik & More

Solutions Review

This collaboration aims to allow enterprises to run applications across any environment – on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Read on for more. [ Read on for more. [ Read on for more. [ The agency also accused ChatGPT, which is financially supported by Microsoft, of failing to check the age of its users. Read on for more. [

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Run Kafka on Kubernetes at Scale with Portworx

Pure Storage

We’ve benchmarked Kafka write speeds at 5 million messages/sec on Flasharray. Kafka seamlessly allows applications to publish and consume messages, storing them as records within a “topic.” Nevertheless, Kubernetes is becoming a standard across organizations for running cloud-native applications. Kafka is extremely fast.