Flash is quickly emerging as the preferred way to overcome the nagging performance limitations of hard disk drives. However, because flash comes at a significant price premium, outright replacement of HDDs with flash only makes sense in situations in which capacity requirements are relatively small and performance requirements are high. Deployment approaches - including hybrid storage arrays, server flash, and all-flash arrays - that combine the performance of flash with the capacity of HDDs can be cost effective for a broad range of performance requirements.

NetApp offers a full range of flash solutions, including server flash, hybrid storage arrays, and all-flash arrays. They’ve done a careful analysis of the cost of each solution at various combinations of performance and capacity to help you understand how to choose the best solutions to address your storage challenges based on your performance needs (IOPS and latency), capacity requirements, working set size (amount of hot data), budget, and data protection objectives.