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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

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And with Pure Storage’s shared-NVRAM approach, this makes controller failover events completely non-disruptive. Almost as impressive, when it launched in 2017, the first FlashBlade system supported a maximum of 120TB of flash. This approach guarantees consistent 100% performance , even in controller failure scenarios.

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Uncovering Dell EMC’s PowerStore B.S. (Bogus Statements)

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We also created our own DirectFlash® Modules in 2017 , allowing us to implement 100% of our storage functionality in software. Resource Balancer only uses capacity-free space to determine where to place the new volume.¹³ This really matters in the performance during a path failover, controller failure, or controller upgrade.

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Dell’s Mid-Range PowerStore Conundrum 

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Later generations of Symmetrix were even bigger and supported more drives with more capacity, more data features, and better resiliency. . Today, Pure1 can help any type of administrator manage Pure products while providing VM-level and array-level analytics for performance and capacity planning. HP even shot its array with a.308