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In today’s storage industry, flash drives are emerging as an attractive alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs). Because of their low response times, high throughput, and IOPS-energy-efficient characteristics, flash drives have the potential to allow your storage infrastructure to achieve significant savings in operational costs. However, the current acquisition cost per GB for flash is higher than for Enterprise SAS (serial attached SCSI) and NL-SAS (Nearline SAS).
Enterprise SAS drives replaced the old SCSI drives and have become common ...

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