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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: 0.208s | 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. zokier ◴[20 Feb 24 17:26 UTC] No.39444053[source]▶
There is no trickery with AWS instance stores, they are honest to god local disks.