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Not to harp too much on the title (I read the article and found it very interesting), but are there any industries storing their data on all-flash? My intuition
by COGlory 3y ago
Not to harp too much on the title (I read the article and found it very interesting), but are there any industries storing their data on all-flash? My intuition is that most institutions still have a giant array of spinning rust somewhere underpinning everything they do.
- birdman3131 3y agoOutside of backups I would expect many business to be all SSD. Maybe not the majority but for many use cases I see no good reason to go HDD for most small businesses. I know I went pretty much all SSD ages ago. I do run backups to a few 14TB externals but nothing outside of that is spinning rust.
- girvo 3y agoI ditched my final spinning rust (a WD Black 2.5” 7200RPM drive I had jammed into my home server) last night actually. It’s all SSDs in my server, and it’s all NVMe in my gaming desktop. My Macs and my partner iPad are all flash too obviously.
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- kccqzy 3y agoI do not think it is feasible to store all of YouTube videos on SSD. Google must be using spinning rust for the long tail of videos.
- rch 3y agoI see a fair number of all SSD clusters, but most have a mix of drive types. Interestingly, the ratio of drive types is aligned with optimal performance rather than cost.
- loeg 3y agoGobs. This is Pure Storage's entire market.
- tatersolid 3y agoOur datacenter at $dayjob retired our last spinning rust drive way back in 2017. Backups are done over the wire to dedupe-enabled targets 600km away; dedupe restore times are shit unless you use all-SSD there as well.