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Today, nearline HDDs are still in broad use with more capacity- and cost-conscious workloads, representing roughly 90% of overall worldwide capacity.
Even the staunchest proponents of HDDs would admit, however, that if flash cost the same as disk, the market for HDDs would disappear almost overnight.
Discover in this white paper why, with innovations and efficiencies introduced by Pure Storage, the industry is now at that inflection point.