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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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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.