Which method do you prefer for data storage?

Data Governance

Tape drives19%

SSD59%

NAS20%

Other (please comment below)

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CTO for Digital & IT in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

Why have you not included S3-style cloud object storage in your options ? This is arguably the biggest revolution in storage of the last couple decades.

Director in Manufacturing2 years ago

In my laptop SSD
On my home network NAS with magnetic disk
Work laptop SSD and magnetic disk
Work Network- multiple cloud vendors, but a lot of documents on Microsoft hosted Teams

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Director of IT in Software3 years ago

NAS can contain SSD or HDD 

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Director ERP Management in Travel and Hospitality3 years ago

It depends what type of data? SSD is a good option for production data. Other options would be a better choice for backup data and archives.

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