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

Solutions Review

Important considerations, which will affect the cost of the service include: security, data encryption, backup frequency, disaster recovery, data accessibility and scalability to name a few. This offers excellent data protection but reduces the effective capacity. Every business has different data backup needs.

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Should You Revisit Insured Property Value Estimates?

Risk Management Monitor

Some commonly used property valuation methods include: obtaining an appraisal from a third-party firm; utilizing fixed-asset records adjusted for cost inflation; or using a simple benchmarking factor, such as dollars per square foot.

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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. Be sure to carefully consider how to ensure persistence, data protection, security, data mobility, and capacity management for Kafka. Portworx Autopilot offers Kubernetes-aware data management and capacity automation. Kafka is extremely fast.

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Improve Open Source Database Operations with AWS Outposts by 4x

Pure Storage

To benchmark the performance of FlashArray, we compared it against AWS EBS. . Rich data services such as industry-leading data reduction, efficient snapshots, business continuity, and disaster recovery with active-active clustering , ActiveDR™ continuous replication , and asynchronous replication. .