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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 I/O per second (IOPS) energy-efficient characteristics, flash drives can help your storage infrastructure achieve significant savings in operational costs. However, the current acquisition cost per GB for flash is higher than for Enterprise serial-attached Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) (SAS) and Nearline (NL) SAS.
Enterprise SAS drives replaced the old SCSI drives. ...

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