I work for a reseller of Pure storage products, and when building our lab kit, we've had several "Linus moments" over the years. Whilst whatever was "Linused" obviously can't be given to a customer, they tend to run for many years after the incident in lab equipment (or until we send it back to Pure) . It is really well built kit.
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
@@graealex It's so they can remotely send updates to the FPGA's to better optimize the storage algorithms, and as they expand their supported services. It doesn't act as a file storage system. It's more like they install services on the FPGA per use case, like if you want to run an SQL database, or cloud storage, or whatever, they write onto the FPGA specific for your service needs. This is why they've been able to support all their old hardware from many generations ago and get similar performance metrics of the new hardware today.
@@AniClips699 FPGAs require a lot more die area, and if it is unknown to you, the shortage mainly affects old processes, and as such chip designs that rely on those.
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.
price per TB cheaper then spinning rust? Well i dont know in what universe you live, but consumer grade spinning rust is still cheaper then any reliable SSD....
@@kanarie93 I think you're missing the point. The cost to have the redundancy and usuable space as spinning rust vs this type of solution is higher. Because of their compression+dedupe your sizing is different. This isn't for a homelab/consumer use, this is comparing datacenter tech to datacenter tech
@thebindir Correct. In consumer and enthusiast and even some workstation worlds, spinning rust drives per TB, even with decent redundancy, will almost always end up cheaper than equivalent systems utilizing flash. But in datacenter and enterprise scales like that, it flips around easily depending on what methods you're using for redundancy and recovery from failures. Add onto that secondary things like cost and software used, and yea...as shown in the vid, it goes to show why it flips. Eventually this kind of thing will probably leech into consumer space once we start touching the dozens to hundreds of TB 5 to 15 years from now.
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!
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.
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!
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.
I feel like the more nerdy/technical something is, the better Anthony preforms. Partly because he can truly understand what he's talking about, but also partly because this shit is just purely fascinating to him similar to us, dude truly gets immersed in the tech rather than worrying about his presentation. The less explaining he needs to do, the choppier it tended to sound to me. He is definitely getting better in general though, I love his videos.
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.
We've got an old 3par and Dell Compellent we are looking to replace. I forwarded this to the lan team since they said they were not aware of this company. We'll see.
@@kierasher1 we just performed a migration from 3 par to pure and it was the best decision that we have made so far. Condensed 3 racks to just a few U’s and the performance boost has been amazing. Just wanted to share.
@@МальвинаКотик-л1ъ can confirm working in a datacenter working on a long maintainance task ANC headphones are pretty much a requirement to hear yourself think
Fledgling technician here, how do you get into working for a company like Pure? I've been fascinated by server and enterprise grade tech for so long, but it seems like an industry where you have to have 7+ years of experience with the stuff to get a job in the first place.
@@syntaxvrc I was in their support department, so the requirements weren't as intense, but it was still challenging to get hired on. It helped that I had friends who worked there and could give me a good recommendation.
@@syntaxvrc best advice find something your passionate about and become an expert. Specifically for pure learn Linux and networking. Learning the standards and how/why things work goes a long ways. Understanding the actual standard that powers smb or NFS or S3 or networking those will take you a long way in a tech career.
@@syntaxvrc I started as an intern at Pure, so I had a kinda unconventional way of getting there. That being said - there's a lot of different things going on at Pure, from our actual server hardware, to our cloud services at Pure1 Manage, to our data analytics and AI research for predicting array load, to plugins for things like vSphere, Microsoft apps, and other storage solutions for Kubernetes and Docker like Portworx. All of them have different skill-sets and provide good ways to get "in" to the storage space, and you can soak up a bunch from the surroundings from there asking about all the different stuff. I've enjoyed almost every day working at Pure so if you see any openings, I'd highly recommend you apply and give it a try ;)
I purchased from Pure for a data center when they were young. Absolutely amazing product and recommend it to friends still doing the purchasing and needing amazing storage solutions.
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.
The server scream was definitely a great sell. I'd have liked to have seen (heard) more of an audio edit to nuke the high frequencies because anthony has a deep enough voice that getting rid of the shrill entirely wouldn't have affected his voice.
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.
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!
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 😂
Pure storage has horrifically uninformed sales teams. I heard things like 'IOPS dont matter' and 'Our compression is 3 to 1 or better, so its competitive with this other unit that has more storage, even though you encrypt your vms.' The product was fine, the sales 4 years ago was dumpster.
@dj Kplus They don't bother to have the conversation because 500k/1 million IOPS is a fucking walk in the park for these things and real conversations about planning for IOPS happen when are talking about accommodating double digit millions of IOPS. The conversations strictly revovled about beating HPE/Dell EMC numbers to keep the bean counters happy in terms of bids... We ran FlashArrays that provided tier 1 file access plus some of our arrays backed MS SQL servers with 1TB of RAM, 64 CPU's and about 50TB of databases....... most of the time the arrays were sleeping.... or idle. We just needed the bonkers low latency because lawyers get impatient when clicking through documents and they don't appear fucking instantly.
@@lharris428 Kind of put them in a crunch when they were bidding for us, because (this was a hair over 5 years ago now that I look at it, lockdowns been rough) we were knocking in the 6.5 million IOPS range on AFAs with around 300tb of storage. They wanted a signed sales contract before going further with technical performance aspects, and had all sorts of strange terms at the time that meant we'd be locked into a solution that they couldn't SHOW us was competitive or guarantee a performance level for. I still have the bid in our archive, they legit were trying to sell us 100tb of actual capacity, even after 3 attempts to explain we're using full encryption. At the time they were pushing their still relatively new platform, with their own underlying model, which was hugely unproven. It left a bad taste in Sr IT management at the time and we're nearing upgrade time again. We're looking at 2pb (our current solution grew hugely) replicated across 3 sites and Pure isnt being invited to bid by the exec teams after the very real cost of allowing them to waste a bid last time. I've used pure since then in my side consulting gig and it's good, but they still sell on their deduplication and the sales team completely ignores you when you say 'Deduplication doesn't work in our environment because we are fully encrypted at rest and in transit.'
@@BadHaddy If you haven't yet, take a look at Weka, faster than anything Pure has and a an architecture that is designed to leverage cheap public cloud storage as a seamless capacity tier. If your workload requires massively parallel file systems, Weka might be the way to go. They aren't as mature as Pure is as a company, but if your needs gut within their sweet spots, you won't find anything faster and more scalable at a better price point. I just ran a client through a bake off replacing 10PB of previous gen Isilon with modern Isilon/PowerScale, Pure Flashblade, NetApp and Weka, and while NetApp ended up being the most efficient in total raw capacity required on-prem, Weka mopped the floor with all of them performance wise and overall scalability, it wasn't even close.
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.
@@shawnrhode let's imagine you actually have to restore 500TB worth of data. How long would it take? And how much do days of downtime cost while you're doing that.
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.
We would get 1PB of SSD easily on the consumer platform too... If manufacturers decided to make bigger SSDs than just 2.5" ones. As is shown with the ExaDrive DC100, 100TB 3.5" SSD, but that's not for the regular folks...
But what consumer would want, need, or even consider paying for 1PB of SSD space? Doesn't make sense to change the form factor when its been an industry standard for several decades now.
@@Sizukun1 I mean, with the right volume of manufacturing, and the lower prices that come with that, I'd be willing to pay up to $1-2k to never need to worry about storage again. I never once thought I'd fill 5TB, but here I am.
Pure is the best product I’ve ever bought as a Sys Admin. I looked at nearly every one of their serious competitors when I was making my purchase, and nobody even came close to this kind of speed. Most were even more expensive, while being slower and harder to upgrade.
our renderfarm was projected to save 35% on power and get a 4x speed boost - turns out we got a 19x speed boost and 39% power savings AND we keep adding server nodes with ZERO SLOW DOWN. Their products are dummy fast and super easy to manage
@@nuzzlefutz NetApp can’t beat Pure’s dedup ratio’s. I’ve seen allot of vendors in my career, and Pure is the only one that stands out in both tech and support!
@@nuzzlefutz Don't get me Wrong. NetApp is a good solution in regards to beeing a jack of all trades. But it's not even a competition to Purestorage in regards to performance. I know both and have multiple customers which have one or the other. Purestorage just destroys NetApp in performance and simplicity in Setup. Edit: Typos, im tired. :D
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.
@Susanna I would advise you to speak to literally anyone worth their salt in the psychiatry field about your views on shaming people to promote a healthy change in them. You’ll be booed out of the door in an instant. Maybe they’ll even laugh at you. Y’know, mock and shame you on your deep misunderstanding of the subject in the hopes that you’ll attempt to educate yourself even one iota on the issues you discuss before airing your nonsensical views again.
@Susanna To start off on an agreement: obesity is a moral failing, provided a person has to ability to prevent it, to be sure. And most of us obese people absolutely have the ability to fix ourselves, so there's no doubt that most of us have failed morally in that regard. My self included, unfortunately. With that said, shame is a tool that can be used and has a place. But like any tool, it can be misused. People respond to shame differently from each other, from past versions of themselves, and in different contexts . If a fat person is about to jump off a bridge, that is a terrible time to shame them. If a fat person is working out in the gym, that is a terrible time to shame them. Without knowing a person, you're not positioned well to use shame effectively. This isn't to say that you're aim is wrong. It's to say that you can strive for a better application of your method, and that shaming random people who don't know you will not bring about the results you desire reliably. As things stand, you're giving everybody a push. Some people you're pushing along the path to a better life. But you're pushing other people closer to the edge. Don't push indiscriminately. Learn when you should push people along the path and when you should pull them back from the edge. There is no one solution to the problem. It's the judicious use of the right tools at that right time that will bring you the outcome you want. All of that is, of course, just my experience and perspective. I wish you all the best in your endeavors so long as they are at least aimed toward the good.
@Susanna How wonderful it would be for you if that were true. But it’s not. Even remotely. In fact, many studies have been done to prove exactly the opposite. Shaming someone does not prompt them to make healthy changes to themselves or their actions, including dieting. It prompts them to withdraw into themselves. If you overeat as a result of depression, being shamed about your weight will serve only to impact your negative perceptions of yourself still further, not the other way around. This does not promote conscious change at any level, and will only worsen the problem. This is known fact. Educate yourself, I implore you.
I'm the Storage guy for the 3rd largest credit union in the US. We have several Pure Storage units now. In their standard FlashArray (The SLC driven "X" series and the QLC driven "C" series) they also install "NVRAM" cache for the entire array. And are "BlockStorage" meaning you can create and present LUNS that can be booted from even. (And we have several servers that "Boot from SAN" from our Flash Arrays.) The FlashBlade you are displaying are "Object Storage". NFS or File type objects. We've ditched an EMC VMAX 250F and it's suuuper high maintenance support contract with a X70R3 that handles all the high IO load at a much lower cost. *AND* we get free upgrades every 3 years to the controllers and enclosures. The VMAX was a full rack with dual 3 phase 30 amp feeds. The replacement is a 3U system with two standard C19 connectors.
I love seeing Anthony's hair blown in the wind of the server exhaust. Combined with the sounds picked up by his mic, it really gives you a sense of what it's like to stand in there with Anthony.
The technology to store and transmit bits is really starting to evolve. Kioxia recently developed an SSD with a 25Gb Ethernet port, no CPU or memory required, the EM6.
It has a CPU AND memory on board, in its internal controller, like almost all SSDs. They just added a network layer to their controller they use for it.
@@ajhauter5049 It could be, but getting ISPs to actually spend the money to utilize new technology in the US will never happen without government intervention. The same thing had to happen with electricity in rural areas across the country. Utilities having monopolies in many areas really screws over the average person
Pure is pretty great, I've installed many of these arrays in my day. Sadly I'm not doing that anymore, but it's a super exciting company and one of the only companies that took on the big guys like EMC/Dell, HP, IBM in the storage arena and actually won.
Gotta love that this one was Anthony over Linus. I enjoy Linus when it's regarding large infrastructure and business operations types of videos; because you know he knows what it's like to develop his business over the years. So it's palpable to feel his awe, when he is going through something like the Intel Fabs. But it's nice to see Anthony for a change; especially digging into some of the deeper levels of technical topics: mostly because of his enthusiasm for this kind of thing.
@@Ladioz if you work in IT these are pretty regular topics, nothing crazy, cool tho. However this was some giant AD, there are other companies doing things like that, and all those features aren't exclusive to them.
@@Ladioz We got a glimpse of what is to come into your PC probably in 20 years, I liked it. Linus won't always be there, even if everyone enjoy a good Linus video, I do appreciate Anthony a lot too. All of Linus staff are truly exceptional really.
@@holocomputers6120 I wish we would get an LTT staff weight loss competition à la Biggest Losers. Anthony looks swag already, him losing weight would mean we would get him for the longest amount of time around. I just wish him the best really, he does look like he shaved off some weight indeed which is amazing.
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.
We went with Pure to deal with a DB that was having trouble with IOPS on the spinning disks. Pure was like "We don't even think about it at all until you hit 100k IOPS". And we were getting a fairly basic model, not the one shown here.
That’s true (note: I work for pure) for the block storage flasharray - a different system than what Anthony showed here - the smallest systems can easily do near 100k iops at 32k with 1ms of latency. So most of the time we are looking at capacity and ensuring the data reduction for the environment will fit on the systems. With block flash arrays, random read iops are plentiful so you can deduplicate and compress very aggressively. You can look at the array really as a metadata key -> data value store. I’m an ltt fan and seeing the company start to have larger scale needs and starting to look at data center workloads has been fun. And Anthony is great to watch.
@@ScottHarney1 I had to do a double take, it was a different Scott we worked with :) And Pure worked out so well we ended up expanding it to replace all our spinning disks in production. I found it interesting that the aggression on the dedupe appears to go up as the storage (and thus spare IOPS?) expanded.
@@suntzu1409 It means they don't do any special disk config that'd you'd normally do for databases on spinning disks. e.g. splitting database/ temp db and logs onto seperate disk groups amd calculating how big each group needed to be to meet the IO requirement for each. (We have a H/A cluster pair of X20's which are the baby sized ones. When we were testing ours, the 20Gb of network I/O became the bottleneck before the storage did)
Maybe the proudest moment of my life besides my kid being born. I have worked at pure for years and LOVE to see the crossover with my favorite tech channel
Let's just take a moment to appreciate that they managed to get remarkably usable audio while basically standing in a hurricane. Also, Anthony on location! Whoop!
Anthony absolutely smashed this video! He looked to be doing this without a prompter and made 0 factual errors that needed correcting in post. Great job Anthony!
I've used PureStorage at work for about 7 or 8 years now and it is amazing. The speed and deduplication rate on it is absolutely crazy. Well worth it for any datacenter.
Anthony in a cutting-edge server room with racks of bespoke hardware screaming at him and blowing his hair around... now that's a match made in heaven. You can feel the nerdy enthusiasm through the screen! I loved learning about this stuff from him.
This is exactly the type of technology that we need to come back to and revisit in 20 years to either laugh at how primitive it was or marvel at how prescient it was.
Isn't this a hilariously poignant commentary on technology though?! It could literally go either way. It's so advanced and fast that we can't imagine anything better, yet we literally have no idea (or at least...I don't) what novel tech could come out tomorrow, let alone 20 years.
@@gnats3266 Exactly! I still remember thinking back in the day how the CD was the ultimate in storage with its unassailable stability and INSANE capacity of 650Mb and how I would never be able to afford a CD drive. Then a few short years later we were receiving free AOL CDs by the mailtruckload and burner drives were around 20 bucks.
Editor Feedback: I'm sure some people will complain about the data center noise. I for one thought you all did an amazing job with the audio knowing just how loud it is in there. Seeing Anthony there with the gear in front of him to talk about it I'm sure added to his excitement level and that gets passed right long to us. Well worth the audio tradeoff thank you!
There's this thing called B-roll. Also, there are audio filters in post production. Anthony's excitement was great, but this was painful to listen to. Actually, literally painful.
So nice to hear something good coming from the US again. What a genius solution!!!! They really have smart people working for them and working together. Thanks Anthony!
I love these sort of videos as it allows me to see what is going on within the professional IT world and data centres which we would not normally see even when we are in IT ourselves.
Very nice to finally see you guys cover Pure. While you didn't cover their block storage side I wanted to say for anyone curious about that (flasharray), they are very efficient for both power and space as they perform inline compression AND dedupe . You can get well over 4X the storage depending on what kind of data is on the array. Plus all their stuff is simple to use and pretty easy to upgrade. Its a welcome change vs other storage vendors.
Pure’s dedupe is second to none by MILES! We had a brand new unity all flash array nearly identical to our pure flash array. The dell managed a measly 3x dedupe ratio on a bunch of VM’s and SQL data meanwhile after migrating to pure, their dedupe ratio was over 13.2 to 1. Just mind boggling performance
Pure storage is amazing. I bought a used one from someone local to me about 6 months ago . It’s an older model with not that much storage. But god it’s stupid quick to run my DB workloads, plus the VMware integration is really good.
The Pure Storage arrays are amazing. We went from a different vendor's hybrid SAN to a Pure SAN, and the performance increase blew us away. Plus, the space savings with their dedupe helped bring the cost and resale values down to the old hybrid array that had much more space. Pure works wonders and I am a huge fan. Glad to see recognition for some of the more Enterprise-grade solutions out there.
Ahhh man I love Pure. We've had them for a few years now. We have the FlashArray//X housing our virtual infrastructure and FlashBlade (currently looking at FlashBlade//S) for some backups. Love Pure. Simple to use. Simple to administer. Amazing support. Best storage solution I've ever dealt with.
I've been a Pure customer at the past couple companies, their support is amazing, and the hardware is no slouch. The FlashArray makes a great SAN replacement, and effectively gives fast nvme storage speeds to all the server VMs in a VM host cluster.
That was fantastic, I'm amazed by what Pure Storage is doing maintaining the balance of cost with the low grade flash while pushing it to absurd limits with a bit of hardware and a lot of software. That's super creative and it really feels like they're making the best of older tech. Thanks for checking that out and host it Anthony!
Always happy to see Anthony being this excited. I was so enlightened when Anthony was being excited in the server rooms. Damn LTT keep up the content ! Expectations are definitely higher after this one
Apart from the intel center videos, this by far is the most interesting video to come out of LTT in a long time, and I’m an avid enjoyer of LTT content.
Fun fact: that is where Anthony vacations every July for 2 days, they just happened to run into him with a camera and decided to shoot a piece. I can see him camping next to the server room.
Anthony standing in front of racks with the fans blowing is the content we all need more of. Keep up the good work Anthony. I hope you had as much fun as it looks like you did!
Finally a video from MY world! I've had clients using Pure for over a decade for VDI and DB applications. It was only a matter of time before they started bypassing high-speed arrays like Violin for workloads like AI that blow the needs for IOPS out the window.
I POC'd a Violin against a Pure back when I was a customer. Broke the Violin from the GUI twice. It was cool tech, but wretched implementation. That's 6 years ago though, they don't even have the top-loading drives anymore, so maybe it's better now.
For VDI and virtual machine workloads in general Pure is absolutely amazing, super simple to manage and setup and by using deduplication and compression it takes almost no storage.
I worked at pure for a few years after selling it in the channel. By fast the best flash product. It is maybe the ONLY enterprise technology products that is exactly what they say it is.
Wait until you hear about AWS Snowmobile. Amazon sends you a literal container truck that is a giant PB scale SSD. That's how they transport data. Bonus, on arrival back at Amazon it loads into your cloud at 1TB/s!
Y'all don't usually under sell so much with the thumbnail and title. This video was awesome and this concept of storage is really cool. I didn't expect this!
Bravo! That was maybe the most informative and easy to understand explanation of a hard to get topic under obviously difficult conditions. Again "Bravo"
I know this is out of left field a bit for the younger LTT gamer / "linus dropping stuff" crowd - but as a member of the older crowd and an IT industry guy myself this is awesome to see. 5-6 years ago Pure was being resold by my employer and the customer facing engineers I worked with were pretty positive on it. I sat in a few technical demos back when they were using more standard hardware and just rebadging the front (super micro most likely) - its awesome to see how far they've come. Fantastic stuff Anthony, keep it up.
I absolutely love these videos, same as Linus visitinging intel's facilities. As somene who works in enterprise cloud and infrastructure, this tickles the right brain stuff. Definitely think there could be some application of nvidia or whoever noise cancellation to bring that fan noise down to manageable levels, but i guess that only works on a live feed rather than in post. I can feel how excited anthony is, and his expertise and perspective was fantastic!
I under the assumption that the velcro ties needed to be orange and with the fiber cables. I absolutely love whenever I get Pure Storage service calls. The techs are knowledgeable and professional to talk to.
20 bucks says Pure Storage specifically asked for Anthony. At least I hope. He's about the only one at LTT that understands this sort of stuff. As to why Enterprise level companies sponsor anything at LTT is mind boggling. Maybe 2% of the audience understands this stuff, and less than 1% of the 2% could even afford it.
There are probably at LEAST 10000 people that watch this video currently studying computer science and as many working is high positions in big companies. LTT is basically pure entertainment for me, with the exception of gems like this, as if I want to learn I watch Gamer Nexus, Level1Techs and der8auer (and so on). If you read the comments over time on LTT videos you will see people that are 0.01% and above in their fields, as I said, entertainment. I bet VERY few extra customers pays for the cost.
My company does onsite equipment swaps for Pure Storage in many of the data centers throughout the USA. I work on one of these usually once a month or so. Their equipment is actually really easy to work on for us break/fix techs.
Every storage vendor in the world has their own proprietary "special sauce". Some "special sauces" are better than others. To standardize all of them would be impossible.
Former FlashBlade developer here, unfortunately that wouldn't be possible. DirectFlash technology needs the software to be specifically designed for the hardware (and vice versa).
It must be a huge relief for the companies to have Anthony and not Linus in their extremely valuable place, he didn't drop a single thing...
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i expect Anthony's jaw dropped when he saw this technology ...
may have been a condition of the video lol
Maybe thats why he is there, they were like big nope on linus yall.
I work for a reseller of Pure storage products, and when building our lab kit, we've had several "Linus moments" over the years.
Whilst whatever was "Linused" obviously can't be given to a customer, they tend to run for many years after the incident in lab equipment (or until we send it back to Pure) .
It is really well built kit.
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
Why not spin up some custom silicon? FPGAs are still quite slow, expensive and power hungry.
@@graealex yea i wonder why during a chip shortage they havent put out their own custom silicon yet........
@@graealex It's so they can remotely send updates to the FPGA's to better optimize the storage algorithms, and as they expand their supported services. It doesn't act as a file storage system. It's more like they install services on the FPGA per use case, like if you want to run an SQL database, or cloud storage, or whatever, they write onto the FPGA specific for your service needs. This is why they've been able to support all their old hardware from many generations ago and get similar performance metrics of the new hardware today.
@@AniClips699 FPGAs require a lot more die area, and if it is unknown to you, the shortage mainly affects old processes, and as such chip designs that rely on those.
@@TickyTack23 That's a reasonable explanation. Still, compared to ASIC, FPGAs are very slow.
Edit: a reasonable but wrong explanation as it seems.
Love that Anthony is out in the wild doing reports like this. Just awesome!
No one else would understand this.
A wild Anthony appears
8:16 Yes, now we know those racks are rated for a magnitude 9.1 on the Anthony hairflow meter.
I was worried his hair would be caught in a server fan. Dang that is some danger in the field.
Reports like this... can you spell "a d v e r t i s e m e n t"?
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.
Your tech is madness - fantasy level stuff. Enjoyed the hell out of this video.
price per TB cheaper then spinning rust? Well i dont know in what universe you live, but consumer grade spinning rust is still cheaper then any reliable SSD....
@@kanarie93 I think you're missing the point. The cost to have the redundancy and usuable space as spinning rust vs this type of solution is higher. Because of their compression+dedupe your sizing is different. This isn't for a homelab/consumer use, this is comparing datacenter tech to datacenter tech
@thebindir Correct. In consumer and enthusiast and even some workstation worlds, spinning rust drives per TB, even with decent redundancy, will almost always end up cheaper than equivalent systems utilizing flash. But in datacenter and enterprise scales like that, it flips around easily depending on what methods you're using for redundancy and recovery from failures. Add onto that secondary things like cost and software used, and yea...as shown in the vid, it goes to show why it flips. Eventually this kind of thing will probably leech into consumer space once we start touching the dozens to hundreds of TB 5 to 15 years from now.
As a Pure Storage field engineer, I am glad to see this video getting some attention
Same. I run quite a few Pure arrays and they are impressive.
Does Pure run their own engineers, or do they contract out?
I work with HPE right now, Pure looks more fun lol
@@dallascarney2986bro Hewlett is a mess rn hahahah
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!
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.
Wtf same!! 😳 so strange
same here
Same!!!! I got recommended a video uploaded 5 seconds ago
Same
Google controlling you and shifting your interests and attention to where they want😑
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!
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@@detective_mitch_conner It's ok to like things and appreciate people, Bort. Perhaps one day you'll become an adult and realise this.
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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.
Just record the audio outside the server room next time :-D
The infamous Anthony turns famous. 👍👍🙂😁
I feel like the more nerdy/technical something is, the better Anthony preforms. Partly because he can truly understand what he's talking about, but also partly because this shit is just purely fascinating to him similar to us, dude truly gets immersed in the tech rather than worrying about his presentation. The less explaining he needs to do, the choppier it tended to sound to me. He is definitely getting better in general though, I love his videos.
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.
We've got an old 3par and Dell Compellent we are looking to replace. I forwarded this to the lan team since they said they were not aware of this company. We'll see.
@@kierasher1 we just performed a migration from 3 par to pure and it was the best decision that we have made so far. Condensed 3 racks to just a few U’s and the performance boost has been amazing. Just wanted to share.
LTT: We can use a Threadripper as a GPU
Pure Storage: We can use a Xeon CPU as a DRAM server cache
Image how quieter the server room would be with ARM or RISC-V chips
also using QLC SSD arrays for a GPU data crunching cache, technically VRAM right?
@@gabrielfair724 server rooms doesnt need to be quiet
@@МальвинаКотик-л1ъ like your mama, but here we are
@@МальвинаКотик-л1ъ can confirm working in a datacenter working on a long maintainance task ANC headphones are pretty much a requirement to hear yourself think
I worked for Pure Storage for 3 years, and still know a bunch of the staff. It's an absolutely WONDERFUL product.
Fledgling technician here, how do you get into working for a company like Pure? I've been fascinated by server and enterprise grade tech for so long, but it seems like an industry where you have to have 7+ years of experience with the stuff to get a job in the first place.
@@syntaxvrc I was in their support department, so the requirements weren't as intense, but it was still challenging to get hired on. It helped that I had friends who worked there and could give me a good recommendation.
@@syntaxvrc best advice find something your passionate about and become an expert. Specifically for pure learn Linux and networking. Learning the standards and how/why things work goes a long ways. Understanding the actual standard that powers smb or NFS or S3 or networking those will take you a long way in a tech career.
@@syntaxvrc I started as an intern at Pure, so I had a kinda unconventional way of getting there. That being said - there's a lot of different things going on at Pure, from our actual server hardware, to our cloud services at Pure1 Manage, to our data analytics and AI research for predicting array load, to plugins for things like vSphere, Microsoft apps, and other storage solutions for Kubernetes and Docker like Portworx. All of them have different skill-sets and provide good ways to get "in" to the storage space, and you can soak up a bunch from the surroundings from there asking about all the different stuff.
I've enjoyed almost every day working at Pure so if you see any openings, I'd highly recommend you apply and give it a try ;)
I purchased from Pure for a data center when they were young. Absolutely amazing product and recommend it to friends still doing the purchasing and needing amazing storage solutions.
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.
The server scream was definitely a great sell. I'd have liked to have seen (heard) more of an audio edit to nuke the high frequencies because anthony has a deep enough voice that getting rid of the shrill entirely wouldn't have affected his voice.
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.
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!
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 😂
Pure storage has horrifically uninformed sales teams. I heard things like 'IOPS dont matter' and 'Our compression is 3 to 1 or better, so its competitive with this other unit that has more storage, even though you encrypt your vms.' The product was fine, the sales 4 years ago was dumpster.
@dj Kplus They don't bother to have the conversation because 500k/1 million IOPS is a fucking walk in the park for these things and real conversations about planning for IOPS happen when are talking about accommodating double digit millions of IOPS. The conversations strictly revovled about beating HPE/Dell EMC numbers to keep the bean counters happy in terms of bids...
We ran FlashArrays that provided tier 1 file access plus some of our arrays backed MS SQL servers with 1TB of RAM, 64 CPU's and about 50TB of databases....... most of the time the arrays were sleeping.... or idle. We just needed the bonkers low latency because lawyers get impatient when clicking through documents and they don't appear fucking instantly.
@@lharris428 Kind of put them in a crunch when they were bidding for us, because (this was a hair over 5 years ago now that I look at it, lockdowns been rough) we were knocking in the 6.5 million IOPS range on AFAs with around 300tb of storage. They wanted a signed sales contract before going further with technical performance aspects, and had all sorts of strange terms at the time that meant we'd be locked into a solution that they couldn't SHOW us was competitive or guarantee a performance level for. I still have the bid in our archive, they legit were trying to sell us 100tb of actual capacity, even after 3 attempts to explain we're using full encryption. At the time they were pushing their still relatively new platform, with their own underlying model, which was hugely unproven. It left a bad taste in Sr IT management at the time and we're nearing upgrade time again. We're looking at 2pb (our current solution grew hugely) replicated across 3 sites and Pure isnt being invited to bid by the exec teams after the very real cost of allowing them to waste a bid last time. I've used pure since then in my side consulting gig and it's good, but they still sell on their deduplication and the sales team completely ignores you when you say 'Deduplication doesn't work in our environment because we are fully encrypted at rest and in transit.'
Does it basically work like Ceph, but with each chip being its own OSD?
@@BadHaddy If you haven't yet, take a look at Weka, faster than anything Pure has and a an architecture that is designed to leverage cheap public cloud storage as a seamless capacity tier.
If your workload requires massively parallel file systems, Weka might be the way to go. They aren't as mature as Pure is as a company, but if your needs gut within their sweet spots, you won't find anything faster and more scalable at a better price point.
I just ran a client through a bake off replacing 10PB of previous gen Isilon with modern Isilon/PowerScale, Pure Flashblade, NetApp and Weka, and while NetApp ended up being the most efficient in total raw capacity required on-prem, Weka mopped the floor with all of them performance wise and overall scalability, it wasn't even close.
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.
Nick Cage -esque
I was looking for this comment haha
Those fans are so loud the editing team had to stifle or use Noise Reduction on the audio, holy shite!🤣
He's *_majestic_*
@@DiamondTear waiting to see the meme created
We got two of these at my org. They are INSANE. We run our daily backups onto them. Some of the coolest hardware I've every worked on.
I believe you must have the previous gen ones ;) These new ones just came out recently.
@@rotohcf1400 Yes. But their software and hardware suite is cool to work with. A bit proprietary, but it's allowed to be when it's so freaking good.
Why do you run your backups to all flash storage? That seems like a very expensive use case.
@@shawnrhode let's imagine you actually have to restore 500TB worth of data. How long would it take? And how much do days of downtime cost while you're doing that.
@@shawnrhode depends on your downtime risk appetite etc
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.
Going with Pure Storage was my best decision in the datacenter I’ve ever made. Absolutely amazing tech.
We would get 1PB of SSD easily on the consumer platform too... If manufacturers decided to make bigger SSDs than just 2.5" ones. As is shown with the ExaDrive DC100, 100TB 3.5" SSD, but that's not for the regular folks...
But what consumer would want, need, or even consider paying for 1PB of SSD space? Doesn't make sense to change the form factor when its been an industry standard for several decades now.
@@Sizukun1 I mean, with the right volume of manufacturing, and the lower prices that come with that, I'd be willing to pay up to $1-2k to never need to worry about storage again.
I never once thought I'd fill 5TB, but here I am.
@@K-Anator 100% this. If I could have a setup that was reliable and never be used up by me I'd buy it. It's insane that 8TB ssd right now can be $1k+.
@@Sizukun1 i dunno, they could definitely make ssd's the size of hdd's and i'd buy them just the same
@@K-Anator 1PB of storage. We might be able to install the next Call of Duty
Pure is the best product I’ve ever bought as a Sys Admin. I looked at nearly every one of their serious competitors when I was making my purchase, and nobody even came close to this kind of speed. Most were even more expensive, while being slower and harder to upgrade.
our renderfarm was projected to save 35% on power and get a 4x speed boost - turns out we got a 19x speed boost and 39% power savings AND we keep adding server nodes with ZERO SLOW DOWN. Their products are dummy fast and super easy to manage
NetApp AFF would like to have a talk with you about that statement.
@@nuzzlefutz NetApp can’t beat Pure’s dedup ratio’s. I’ve seen allot of vendors in my career, and Pure is the only one that stands out in both tech and support!
@@nuzzlefutz Don't get me Wrong. NetApp is a good solution in regards to beeing a jack of all trades. But it's not even a competition to Purestorage in regards to performance. I know both and have multiple customers which have one or the other. Purestorage just destroys NetApp in performance and simplicity in Setup.
Edit: Typos, im tired. :D
@@InIMoeK Advertised or actual dedupe - They also originally stole their dedupe algorithm from EMC.
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.
Adrian: or you could just say "wow what a horrible comment by a horrible person"
@Susanna I would advise you to speak to literally anyone worth their salt in the psychiatry field about your views on shaming people to promote a healthy change in them. You’ll be booed out of the door in an instant. Maybe they’ll even laugh at you. Y’know, mock and shame you on your deep misunderstanding of the subject in the hopes that you’ll attempt to educate yourself even one iota on the issues you discuss before airing your nonsensical views again.
@Susanna To start off on an agreement: obesity is a moral failing, provided a person has to ability to prevent it, to be sure. And most of us obese people absolutely have the ability to fix ourselves, so there's no doubt that most of us have failed morally in that regard. My self included, unfortunately. With that said, shame is a tool that can be used and has a place. But like any tool, it can be misused.
People respond to shame differently from each other, from past versions of themselves, and in different contexts . If a fat person is about to jump off a bridge, that is a terrible time to shame them. If a fat person is working out in the gym, that is a terrible time to shame them. Without knowing a person, you're not positioned well to use shame effectively. This isn't to say that you're aim is wrong. It's to say that you can strive for a better application of your method, and that shaming random people who don't know you will not bring about the results you desire reliably.
As things stand, you're giving everybody a push. Some people you're pushing along the path to a better life. But you're pushing other people closer to the edge. Don't push indiscriminately. Learn when you should push people along the path and when you should pull them back from the edge. There is no one solution to the problem. It's the judicious use of the right tools at that right time that will bring you the outcome you want.
All of that is, of course, just my experience and perspective. I wish you all the best in your endeavors so long as they are at least aimed toward the good.
@Susanna How wonderful it would be for you if that were true. But it’s not. Even remotely. In fact, many studies have been done to prove exactly the opposite. Shaming someone does not prompt them to make healthy changes to themselves or their actions, including dieting. It prompts them to withdraw into themselves. If you overeat as a result of depression, being shamed about your weight will serve only to impact your negative perceptions of yourself still further, not the other way around. This does not promote conscious change at any level, and will only worsen the problem. This is known fact. Educate yourself, I implore you.
@Susanna I can't help but read this comment and feel embarrassed for you
I'm the Storage guy for the 3rd largest credit union in the US. We have several Pure Storage units now.
In their standard FlashArray (The SLC driven "X" series and the QLC driven "C" series) they also install "NVRAM" cache for the entire array. And are "BlockStorage" meaning you can create and present LUNS that can be booted from even. (And we have several servers that "Boot from SAN" from our Flash Arrays.)
The FlashBlade you are displaying are "Object Storage". NFS or File type objects.
We've ditched an EMC VMAX 250F and it's suuuper high maintenance support contract with a X70R3 that handles all the high IO load at a much lower cost. *AND* we get free upgrades every 3 years to the controllers and enclosures. The VMAX was a full rack with dual 3 phase 30 amp feeds. The replacement is a 3U system with two standard C19 connectors.
*C13 connections ;) No need for C19 with an X70. Also, take a look at how NVRAM is redone on //XL.
I love seeing Anthony's hair blown in the wind of the server exhaust. Combined with the sounds picked up by his mic, it really gives you a sense of what it's like to stand in there with Anthony.
I couldn't watch, I thought for sure a fan was gonna suck his hair in at any minute
The technology to store and transmit bits is really starting to evolve. Kioxia recently developed an SSD with a 25Gb Ethernet port, no CPU or memory required, the EM6.
It has a CPU AND memory on board, in its internal controller, like almost all SSDs. They just added a network layer to their controller they use for it.
With the technology to transmit bits evolving, you'd think fast home internet would be easily available everywhere!
@@ajhauter5049 It could be, but getting ISPs to actually spend the money to utilize new technology in the US will never happen without government intervention. The same thing had to happen with electricity in rural areas across the country. Utilities having monopolies in many areas really screws over the average person
@@MrOfTheSea That is unfortunately the case. I live in rural Missouri, and internet connections that pass 10mbps do not exist in the area.
@@MrOfTheSea Same thing here in Germany ^^
Been using Pure for years now. Love them for our analytics platform storage. Their snapshotting and deduplication is awesome.
Pure is pretty great, I've installed many of these arrays in my day. Sadly I'm not doing that anymore, but it's a super exciting company and one of the only companies that took on the big guys like EMC/Dell, HP, IBM in the storage arena and actually won.
FlashBlade S customer here and we are super happy with the performance. We basically replaced two full rack SANs with two 5U Pure arrays. Crazy.
Seeing that pure angel of a man get to geek out the way he did in this video makes my heart happy. He's truly a treasure and the best thing about LTT.
We’ve had one of these at work for a few years now. Wicked fast!!
Gotta love that this one was Anthony over Linus.
I enjoy Linus when it's regarding large infrastructure and business operations types of videos; because you know he knows what it's like to develop his business over the years. So it's palpable to feel his awe, when he is going through something like the Intel Fabs.
But it's nice to see Anthony for a change; especially digging into some of the deeper levels of technical topics: mostly because of his enthusiasm for this kind of thing.
Thanks for shelling out more Anthony videos. He truly is a gem.
not to be a meat rider, but has he lost weight?
@@holocomputers6120 looks like that right?
@@Ladioz if you work in IT these are pretty regular topics, nothing crazy, cool tho. However this was some giant AD, there are other companies doing things like that, and all those features aren't exclusive to them.
@@Ladioz We got a glimpse of what is to come into your PC probably in 20 years, I liked it.
Linus won't always be there, even if everyone enjoy a good Linus video, I do appreciate Anthony a lot too. All of Linus staff are truly exceptional really.
@@holocomputers6120 I wish we would get an LTT staff weight loss competition à la Biggest Losers. Anthony looks swag already, him losing weight would mean we would get him for the longest amount of time around. I just wish him the best really, he does look like he shaved off some weight indeed which is amazing.
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.
You are such an asset to this channel. I have been in IT for 22 years and you definitely get it.
We went with Pure to deal with a DB that was having trouble with IOPS on the spinning disks. Pure was like "We don't even think about it at all until you hit 100k IOPS". And we were getting a fairly basic model, not the one shown here.
That’s true (note: I work for pure) for the block storage flasharray - a different system than what Anthony showed here - the smallest systems can easily do near 100k iops at 32k with 1ms of latency. So most of the time we are looking at capacity and ensuring the data reduction for the environment will fit on the systems. With block flash arrays, random read iops are plentiful so you can deduplicate and compress very aggressively. You can look at the array really as a metadata key -> data value store.
I’m an ltt fan and seeing the company start to have larger scale needs and starting to look at data center workloads has been fun. And Anthony is great to watch.
@@ScottHarney1 I had to do a double take, it was a different Scott we worked with :)
And Pure worked out so well we ended up expanding it to replace all our spinning disks in production.
I found it interesting that the aggression on the dedupe appears to go up as the storage (and thus spare IOPS?) expanded.
What does ""we font even think about it"" mean
@@suntzu1409 It means they don't do any special disk config that'd you'd normally do for databases on spinning disks. e.g. splitting database/ temp db and logs onto seperate disk groups amd calculating how big each group needed to be to meet the IO requirement for each.
(We have a H/A cluster pair of X20's which are the baby sized ones. When we were testing ours, the 20Gb of network I/O became the bottleneck before the storage did)
@@suntzu1409 That even their base model will handle 100k IOPS easily.
Anthony killing it like he always does. Probably my favorite member of the LTT team :) Good job!!!!
Definitely my favorite 🙌
Maybe the proudest moment of my life besides my kid being born. I have worked at pure for years and LOVE to see the crossover with my favorite tech channel
That's awesome. I'm sure lots of people at Intel felt the same way.
Let's just take a moment to appreciate that they managed to get remarkably usable audio while basically standing in a hurricane.
Also, Anthony on location! Whoop!
Anthony absolutely smashed this video! He looked to be doing this without a prompter and made 0 factual errors that needed correcting in post.
Great job Anthony!
Anthony has an excellent way of explaining stuff. And his calm voice makes him much more pleasent to listen to than others.
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calm voice? server go brrrr 😂 But agree
I've used PureStorage at work for about 7 or 8 years now and it is amazing. The speed and deduplication rate on it is absolutely crazy. Well worth it for any datacenter.
The sheer scale of this hardware is awe-inspiring. Loved it!
I love how happy this makes him in this video. The passion and energy he has in this video is my favorite.
I am pretty sure Anthony is the one and only visitor they ever had who really understood what they are doing.
Anthony in a cutting-edge server room with racks of bespoke hardware screaming at him and blowing his hair around... now that's a match made in heaven. You can feel the nerdy enthusiasm through the screen! I loved learning about this stuff from him.
This is exactly the type of technology that we need to come back to and revisit in 20 years to either laugh at how primitive it was or marvel at how prescient it was.
Isn't this a hilariously poignant commentary on technology though?! It could literally go either way. It's so advanced and fast that we can't imagine anything better, yet we literally have no idea (or at least...I don't) what novel tech could come out tomorrow, let alone 20 years.
@@gnats3266 Indeed... Could you imagine going back to 2002 with this information!
@@gnats3266 Exactly! I still remember thinking back in the day how the CD was the ultimate in storage with its unassailable stability and INSANE capacity of 650Mb and how I would never be able to afford a CD drive. Then a few short years later we were receiving free AOL CDs by the mailtruckload and burner drives were around 20 bucks.
Editor Feedback: I'm sure some people will complain about the data center noise. I for one thought you all did an amazing job with the audio knowing just how loud it is in there. Seeing Anthony there with the gear in front of him to talk about it I'm sure added to his excitement level and that gets passed right long to us. Well worth the audio tradeoff thank you!
There's this thing called B-roll. Also, there are audio filters in post production. Anthony's excitement was great, but this was painful to listen to. Actually, literally painful.
So nice to hear something good coming from the US again. What a genius solution!!!! They really have smart people working for them and working together. Thanks Anthony!
I love these sort of videos as it allows me to see what is going on within the professional IT world and data centres which we would not normally see even when we are in IT ourselves.
Very nice to finally see you guys cover Pure. While you didn't cover their block storage side I wanted to say for anyone curious about that (flasharray), they are very efficient for both power and space as they perform inline compression AND dedupe . You can get well over 4X the storage depending on what kind of data is on the array.
Plus all their stuff is simple to use and pretty easy to upgrade. Its a welcome change vs other storage vendors.
Pure’s dedupe is second to none by MILES! We had a brand new unity all flash array nearly identical to our pure flash array. The dell managed a measly 3x dedupe ratio on a bunch of VM’s and SQL data meanwhile after migrating to pure, their dedupe ratio was over 13.2 to 1. Just mind boggling performance
I love how genuinely excited Anthony is for these blades ^^
Pure storage is amazing. I bought a used one from someone local to me about 6 months ago . It’s an older model with not that much storage. But god it’s stupid quick to run my DB workloads, plus the VMware integration is really good.
F500 company here. We use Pure in all our DB and VM host computes. Best thing in our datacenters. Universally loved.
Gotta say your marketing team really missed the opportunity to call the LTT store clothing section, “Linus Tech Drips”
The Pure Storage arrays are amazing. We went from a different vendor's hybrid SAN to a Pure SAN, and the performance increase blew us away. Plus, the space savings with their dedupe helped bring the cost and resale values down to the old hybrid array that had much more space. Pure works wonders and I am a huge fan. Glad to see recognition for some of the more Enterprise-grade solutions out there.
Ahhh man I love Pure. We've had them for a few years now. We have the FlashArray//X housing our virtual infrastructure and FlashBlade (currently looking at FlashBlade//S) for some backups.
Love Pure. Simple to use. Simple to administer. Amazing support. Best storage solution I've ever dealt with.
I've been a Pure customer at the past couple companies, their support is amazing, and the hardware is no slouch. The FlashArray makes a great SAN replacement, and effectively gives fast nvme storage speeds to all the server VMs in a VM host cluster.
I only noticed how CLEAN the Branding, the Website, and the Server Room Is!
Logo also seems PURE ;)
That was fantastic, I'm amazed by what Pure Storage is doing maintaining the balance of cost with the low grade flash while pushing it to absurd limits with a bit of hardware and a lot of software. That's super creative and it really feels like they're making the best of older tech. Thanks for checking that out and host it Anthony!
We use Pure Storage at my company (large credit union) - interesting to see the perspective shown here on the manufacturer end.
Great video!
Always happy to see Anthony being this excited. I was so enlightened when Anthony was being excited in the server rooms. Damn LTT keep up the content ! Expectations are definitely higher after this one
Apart from the intel center videos, this by far is the most interesting video to come out of LTT in a long time, and I’m an avid enjoyer of LTT content.
Fun fact: that is where Anthony vacations every July for 2 days, they just happened to run into him with a camera and decided to shoot a piece.
I can see him camping next to the server room.
Anthony standing in front of racks with the fans blowing is the content we all need more of. Keep up the good work Anthony. I hope you had as much fun as it looks like you did!
Man, we got a pure for our company about 2 years ago and it's been awesome. Cool to see it on LTT
Finally a video from MY world! I've had clients using Pure for over a decade for VDI and DB applications. It was only a matter of time before they started bypassing high-speed arrays like Violin for workloads like AI that blow the needs for IOPS out the window.
I POC'd a Violin against a Pure back when I was a customer. Broke the Violin from the GUI twice. It was cool tech, but wretched implementation. That's 6 years ago though, they don't even have the top-loading drives anymore, so maybe it's better now.
For VDI and virtual machine workloads in general Pure is absolutely amazing, super simple to manage and setup and by using deduplication and compression it takes almost no storage.
This is an incredibly exciting video for me because I'm starting a SWE position at Pure in September.
Awesome. Welcome to the team!
9:05 I love how Anthony's hair wave in the wake of wind that the rack is producing, true PC Master Race endgame
10% understanding Anthony
90% enjoying watching him enjoying himself
Just need some more Linux video from Anthony :(
For real software and tech nerds that like to get into the nitty gritty, Anthony is the man. Thank you for continuing to bring in his content!
I worked at pure for a few years after selling it in the channel. By fast the best flash product. It is maybe the ONLY enterprise technology products that is exactly what they say it is.
I just finished porting SONiC to an ONIE switch like the arista shown. That is some of the coolest tech I've worked with.
What a great video. I really love Anthony as a presenter, the man knows his stuff and his enthusiasm is contagious.
Anthony is a great talent and a wonderful host. I always enjoy his videos. The man is a sage. I’m glad Linus noticed his talent.
I'd love one of those in my server rack, oh the dreams..
Wait until you hear about AWS Snowmobile.
Amazon sends you a literal container truck that is a giant PB scale SSD. That's how they transport data. Bonus, on arrival back at Amazon it loads into your cloud at 1TB/s!
you say that like a container truck sized PB scale ssd is more impressive that a 5u sized PB scale ssd
Yes, sending the data physicly is not outdated where alot, and I mean A LOT, of data needs to be send across a long distance.
So, essentially, RFC1149, but truck instead of bird.
That is insane speeds. Would love to see that setup.
It's up to 100Pb capacity.
Y'all don't usually under sell so much with the thumbnail and title. This video was awesome and this concept of storage is really cool. I didn't expect this!
Just watched a 19 minute ad (sponsored video) and I loved it! Good information.
Finnaly! An ssd that can store all of the modern games!
Dear Anthony, please take care of your health! We all love you.
not to be a meat rider, but has he lost weight?
Just started working with Pure at my job and was going to start recommending you guys cover them as an interesting topic here, so cool to see
Bravo! That was maybe the most informative and easy to understand explanation of a hard to get topic under obviously difficult conditions. Again "Bravo"
I know this is out of left field a bit for the younger LTT gamer / "linus dropping stuff" crowd - but as a member of the older crowd and an IT industry guy myself this is awesome to see. 5-6 years ago Pure was being resold by my employer and the customer facing engineers I worked with were pretty positive on it. I sat in a few technical demos back when they were using more standard hardware and just rebadging the front (super micro most likely) - its awesome to see how far they've come.
Fantastic stuff Anthony, keep it up.
This is simply Amazing! Great job of explaining the unexplainable to us pleebs, Anthony!
I absolutely love these videos, same as Linus visitinging intel's facilities. As somene who works in enterprise cloud and infrastructure, this tickles the right brain stuff. Definitely think there could be some application of nvidia or whoever noise cancellation to bring that fan noise down to manageable levels, but i guess that only works on a live feed rather than in post. I can feel how excited anthony is, and his expertise and perspective was fantastic!
Anthony is a blessing for us.
Stay safe man
"It's like the Array of Theseus" is just such a wonderful analogy.
Thank you for this gift.
I under the assumption that the velcro ties needed to be orange and with the fiber cables.
I absolutely love whenever I get Pure Storage service calls. The techs are knowledgeable and professional to talk to.
Love Anthonys videos, very in depth and more "geeky" than the usual content. Please keep producing his content!
Funny, I ask about SSDs in yesterday’s HDD video. Then we get this video. Not that I’m complaining, more Anthony is never a bad thing.
20 bucks says Pure Storage specifically asked for Anthony. At least I hope. He's about the only one at LTT that understands this sort of stuff. As to why Enterprise level companies sponsor anything at LTT is mind boggling. Maybe 2% of the audience understands this stuff, and less than 1% of the 2% could even afford it.
Jake?
I think a big part who understand this stuff, work at a position that could influence a decision, which can lead to a sale for pure storage.
Well, there are a million average views on LTT videos. %0.001 conversion rate is probably more than enough to have a return on investment.
There are probably at LEAST 10000 people that watch this video currently studying computer science and as many working is high positions in big companies. LTT is basically pure entertainment for me, with the exception of gems like this, as if I want to learn I watch Gamer Nexus, Level1Techs and der8auer (and so on). If you read the comments over time on LTT videos you will see people that are 0.01% and above in their fields, as I said, entertainment. I bet VERY few extra customers pays for the cost.
My company does onsite equipment swaps for Pure Storage in many of the data centers throughout the USA. I work on one of these usually once a month or so. Their equipment is actually really easy to work on for us break/fix techs.
Anthony on a work trip warms my heart! I hope he had a good trip and got to take a few days for himself!
This sort of technology would be nice to have specified and standardized, rather than proprietary and exclusive.
"F*CK you Nvidia" - Torvald Linux mad
Alas, that would not be as profitable as charging through the roof for it
Every storage vendor in the world has their own proprietary "special sauce". Some "special sauces" are better than others. To standardize all of them would be impossible.
Former FlashBlade developer here, unfortunately that wouldn't be possible. DirectFlash technology needs the software to be specifically designed for the hardware (and vice versa).
Yes it’s an SSD.
I get why Anthony hosted the video but I miss the energy from Linus when goes on company tours.
On the contrary, I love that someone else is finally taking up the mantle of company tours, especially when it's Anthony!
I always feel smarter after Anthony explains something because he does it in such a way that I actually understand and can retain.
I love that on this chanel you can find everything from pcs smaller than a ssd and ssds bigger than a pc