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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

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589 points greghn | 1 comments | 20 Feb 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.25s | source
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bombcar ◴[20 Feb 24 17:14 UTC] No.39443872[source]▶
I think the obvious answer is there's not much demand, and keeping it "low" allows trickery and funny business with the virtualization layer (think: SAN, etc) that you can't do with "raw hardware speed".
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1. s1gnp0st ◴[20 Feb 24 17:20 UTC] No.39443975[source]▶
True but the funny business buys a lot of fault tolerance, and predictable performance if not maximum performance.