Object Storage vs. Enterprise File Storage for AI: Which Does Your Workload Actually Need?
Quick Answer: Scale-out file storage provides the speed needed to prepare data and train models, while object storage offers a way to balance cost-efficiency, capacity, and performance to store large and growing amounts of data. Parallel file systems are designed for large-scale, high-performance training projects. The right setup depends on how an organization uses its data, and many organizations end up relying on more than one type of storage.AI workloads can place very different demands on storage.
- ▪Quick Answer: Scale-out file storage provides the speed needed to prepare data and train models, while object storage offers a way to balance cost-efficiency, capacity, and performance to store large and growing amounts of data.
- ▪Parallel file systems are designed for large-scale, high-performance training projects.
- ▪The right setup depends on how an organization uses its data, and many organizations end up relying on more than one type of storage.AI workloads can place very different demands on storage.
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Quick Answer: Scale-out file storage provides the speed needed to prepare data and train models, while object storage offers a way to balance cost-efficiency, capacity, and performance to store large and growing amounts of data. Parallel file systems are designed for large-scale, high-performance training projects. The right setup depends on how an organization uses its data, and many organizations end up relying on more than one type of storage.AI workloads can place very different demands on storage. A storage system designed to hold vast amounts of raw data may not be fast enough to supply thousands of GPUs during AI training.
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