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

Pure Storage

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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How to Get Started with CrystalDiskMark on a Mac

Pure Storage

CrystalDiskMark is an IT industry-wide recognized tool for benchmarking storage devices. CrystalDiskMark is a benchmarking tool for storage devices. CrystalDiskMark can still benchmark a Mac PC for comparisons against other devices, but it’s best used as a diagnostic and analysis tool for Macs. What Is CrystalDiskMark?CrystalDiskMark

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Achieve Energy Savings with Pure1

Pure Storage

Peak metrics are based on Pure1’s benchmarks representing the upper boundary of what your hardware could draw, whereas the actual power metric represents your current power draw. Like the peak metrics, these metrics are also based on Pure’s hardware benchmarks representing an average power draw (again, heat is calculated using power).

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The Disk/Flash Crossover Event Is Closer Than You Think

Pure Storage

One of the predictions I made was that “new flash capacity will get within striking distance [of the cost] of new HDD capacity in 2023.” This is the lowest tier of online data storage, but it also represents a huge portion of bytes being stored, as well as the growing majority (more than 70%) of hard drive capacity shipped each year.

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Reach Your Data Resiliency High Score

Pure Storage

It includes a data protection assessment that benchmarks your storage configuration against Pure’s own leading practices built on years of experience and working with our customers. Points are granted based on the percentage of your overall virtual capacity that’s protected by each feature. 5 (1 point x 50%) .

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Revolutionizing Responsibly: Elevate Your ESG Game with Pure1

Pure Storage

The power efficiency profile is based on watts/usable TiB where a w eighted average of individual arrays is calculated in the organization in relation to its contributions to the overall usable capacity. Enhancing the usage of your array for higher capacity (and/or performance). Curious about where you stand?

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How the 3-2-1 Rule for Backups Can Help SMBs Right Now

Solutions Review

There are several different RAID levels that a business can leverage to best optimize a NAS solution based on their performance, data protections and capacity needs. For example, RAID 0 offers the fastest read/write speeds and maximum availability of raw storage capacity but doesn’t offer any data redundancy support.

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