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

Pure Storage

To determine the actual difference in speed, you’ll need to download benchmarking tools. Drive manufacturers, such as Crucial, Samsung, Intel, and SanDisk (Western Digital), provide benchmarking tools that enable you to test drive speeds. How to Benchmark SSD vs. HDD. Storage devices are benchmarked using read and write actions.

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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. For example, HDDs are affordable for backup storage. Backup servers are mainly used for writes where users store their data but rarely need to retrieve it.

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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. These include automated capacity management capabilities, data and application disaster recovery, application-aware high availability, migrations, and backup and restore. Kafka is extremely fast. This is where Portworx comes in.