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At our Pure//Accelerate® conference in June, Pure Storage showed the world some incredible technology with two big announcements. The first was that we would be introducing a 75TB DirectFlash® Module (DFM) this year and 150TB and 300TB DFMs to follow in the next few years.
The second was what I would call a pretty hot take (as far as hot takes go in the storage industry): With the rapid pace of flash innovation, we predicted that there would be no place for hard drives in the data center by 2028.
Some of the questions I’ve gotten a lot since those announcements are: Isn’t Pure worried about making modules that big? What happens when one of them fails? How long would a rebuild take? Does it affect system performance?
These questions don’t have a simple answer, and that’s because data resiliency at scale is not simple. But the good news is that we’ve made this a non-issue for customers.
How Pure Storage Does Resiliency at Scale
Like all things at Pure Storage, that’s because of how we’ve designed our systems. They’re capable and sophisticated inside while remaining simple to manage and consume on the outside.
Those of us who have been
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