• Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
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    28 days ago

    Flash drive-based vendor Pure Storage has a different point of view, as you might expect. It takes a system-level view rather than per-drive. Pure suggests that, for a 1 exabyte deployment over ten years with a five-year life cycle for the HDDs and a ten-year life cycle for DirectFlash Modules, it finds that the HDD system emits 107,984 metric tons of carbon whereas a Pure-based system emits 14,779 tons.

    Their “findings” are almost diametrically opposed to the “research” from Seagate.