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Analyst haus Stifel Nicolaus' MD, Aaron Rakers, has had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC at a Stifel Nicolaus Technology, Internet & Media Conference in San Francisco. The execs gave their thoughts on HDD demand, HAMR HDD tech, NVME over fabrics, Gen 6 Fibre …

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  1. Joerg

    3D NAND is a dead thing. 3D XPoint might kill the HDUs in a few years...

    3D NAND is a dead thing. 3D XPoint might kill the HDUs in a few years...

    The NAND flash technology has always been unreliable and just plain bad. It is a waste of money and only idiots would put any enterprise mission critical system running on NAND flash based drives only whatever the RAID level used.

    3D XPoint maybe 10 years from now might be able to replace the Hard Disk drives and kill them. Surely not sooner anyway.

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  2. Stephen McLaughlin

    32G FC Ports - Awesome

    The one thing with that though it seems like most of the HBAs (Server and Storage) in the environments I've been in lately are still 8G, so a lot of catching up to do.

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      Re: 32G FC Ports - Awesome

      That's because most critical workloads require low latency rather than high bandwidth. 8 Gbps provides what's needed so why change?

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