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Storage-Memory Hierarchy To learn how memory and disk caches work, see cache. SSDs provide faster storage retrieval than hard disks (see SSD and hard disk). Even in the Stone Age!

“Our vision is to achieve $1 per petabyte per month, a cost reduction of 1000x within the next two decades.” Hard-disk drives (HDDs) currently store about 85% of the world’s digital data, and about 60 ...

If the prospect of faster secondary storage at a reasonable price appeals to you, then check out Amazon's discount on the 1TB version of the MX500—it's on sale for $81.99.

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Nutanix Mine, unveiled on Wednesday at Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Anaheim, Calif., is a turnkey solution that integrates secondary storage operations with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

The company said secondary data accounts for up to 80 percent of total enterprise data. “That secondary storage is fragmented, sprawling across many markets,” said Cohesity CMO Lynn Lucas.