This is an SSD?! - PureStorage FlashBlade Tour

SSDs are fast, but in the datacenter, fast is never fast enough. So why did Pure Storage switch to slower QLC flash, and how is it FASTER than TLC?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 – Intro
0:50 – This is an SSD?!
1:59 – How do SSDs work?
2:59 – The Method to Pure Storage’s Madness
6:17 – The FlashBlade//S
8:12 – Touring the Datacenter
11:44 – Who could need this much storage!?
13:15 – An NVIDIA DGX A100 in action
14:08 – What happens after the SSD array is retired?
15:10 – The “File System” and what happens when you yank one out
17:45 – Who is Pure Storage?
18:32 – Conclusion

[broomicute]

Love that Anthony is out in the wild doing reports like this. Just awesome!

[TickyTack]

Dude, I assembled these machines on the factory line back in 2019. They have some really interesting perspectives on using SSD storage in tandem with FPGA's

[Alex_Tierney]

I remember when Anthony first started appearing as a cohost in videos, and everyone overwhelmingly wanted more Anthony.

Here we are years later and Anthony hosts some of the coolest videos. Excellent video hosting and writing, Anthony!

[KrmtFrg]

As a Pure Storage field engineer, I am glad to see this video getting some attention

[jordanhildebrandt]

Anthony has really gotten comfortable in front of a camera. This is the best, most natural performance I've seen him deliver. And the tech is bonkers in this one!

Well done all around.

[enhazevibes]

Its so strange how YT has never shown me a video newer than a few hours old until this week. I keep getting suggested videos with minutes shown rather than hours.

[Brian_Fantastic]

I worked for Pure Storage for 3 years, and still know a bunch of the staff. It's an absolutely WONDERFUL product.

[colinmead]

Disclaimer - I work for Pure, but this is one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time. I remember the days we had to spend the first half of any presentation explaining what Flash technology was, and why is was better than spinning disks - lower power, higher performance and density, more reliable, and with dedupe/compression and predicted wide scale adoption - price competitive with magnetic media. How times have changed - Flash benefits are well known now, and price per TB cheaper than spinning disks. Pure DFMs are not only higher performing than SSDs, they are way more reliable and last a lot longer. Well done Anthony - great job.

[SherrifOfNottingham]

Anthony is by far my favorite, the best part is he actually enjoys all this really technical stuff. The kind of guy that walks into a server room and looks around like a kid in a candy store, on top of that his brain is huge and he actually understands the stuff he's explaining.

[CabeButler]

Been using PureStorage since 2016. Fantastic system, amazing team and hardware that just won't quit. Upgraded storage controllers twice in that time with absolutely no downtime for a critical healthcare environment. So worth the money. Especially compared to my experiences with HP Lefthand and 3par.

[yalefriend]

That's me measuring my switching node at 5:50! I designed the FIOM on FlashBlade//S. So proud to see its name in lights 🤩Huge thanks to Anthony and LTT for stopping by!

[Loop_Kat]

LTT: We can use a Threadripper as a GPU

Pure Storage: We can use a Xeon CPU as a DRAM server cache

[NEDinACTION]

This might be one of my favorite LTT videos. The technology is incredibly novel and Anthony is the perfect host to give such a clear explanation of how it works(the editing went a long way for that too!) And something about him just standing in front of a loud server rack screaming about specs was just perfect. It felt like I was there.

[thecoddijplex]

I've been a Pure Storage customer since pretty early on. There are always sales people claiming that a technology can do this that and the other. Pure Storage is the only technology vendor I've ever worked with who has lived up to and sometimes even surpassed all the sales claims.

We (with a previous org) put their early arrays in a head to head with one of the legacy storage vendor all flash arrays. Not only did it out perform the competitors, it also was easier to use, and ultimately price-parity with the spinning disk equivalent. I wish I could say it was an easy sell to those holding the purse strings, but Pure was a brand new company and flash was a brand new tech at the time. Eventually they were convinced and the transformation was incredible.

I love the direction they're taking with their tech and the differentiation in the market is great. Keep up the good work, Pure!

[dineauxjones]

I have to admit (coming from someone who worked for their competition at one point) I'm impressed with what Pure has done to stay competitive in the datacenter storage space.

[ryanhoneyman]

We got one of these a few months ago. Like Anthony said we never heard of them. The performance is outstanding.
We had a disk queue graphic set up that we thought had stopped working it appeared to have just flatlined... Turns out at 500% zoom it was working, just the queue was so crazy small you couldn't tell by the graphic 😂

[GreatisNateGaming]

Watching Antony's magnificent hair blow in the breeze of a server rack's worth of fans is peak content. Totally the nerdy equivalent of those breeze on the beach slow mo Scenes.

[Heathensauce]

Anthony is perfectly imperfect and I think thats why everyone loves him. The guy just loves what he does, you can see the joy and passion in his voice. This is what companies should look for in a spokesperson. You can tell hes excited, he loves this, he loves his job, he is just happy to be talking about technology. This man is going to move up and hes going places, just you wait.

[redseve]

I bought a shirt from Good Mythical Morning, it took 3 weeks to arrive, the customer service never responded to my email, when it arrived it had loose threads everywhere and was essentially a basic gildan shirt for $30. I've spent a lot of money on LTT store and I gotta say, I appreciate you guys so much, you seriously go above and beyond to put out seriously good, quality and fashionable merch. LTT rocks to much, thank you for caring about your fans.

[fitzmyron]

Going with Pure Storage was my best decision in the datacenter I’ve ever made. Absolutely amazing tech.