SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

I ended up buying a SATA SSD for 50 euros to stick in an old laptop that I was already using as server and, my god, it is so much faster than the thing I was trying to run on digitalocean. The DO VPS barely beat the old 5400 rpm spinning rust that was in the laptop originally (the reason why I was trying to rent a fast, advertised-with-SSD, server). Doing this i/o task effectively in the cloud, at least with DO, seems to require putting it in RAM which was a bit expensive for the few hundred gigabytes of data I wanted to process into an indexed format

So there is demand, but I'm certainly not interested in paying many multiples of 50 euros over an expected lifespan of a few years, so it may not make economic sense for them to offer it to users like me at least. On the other hand, for the couple hours this should have taken (rather than the days it initially did), I'd certainly have been willing to pay that cloud premium and that's why I tried to get me one of these allegedly SSD-backed VPSes... but now that I have a fast system permanently, I don't think that was a wise decision of past me