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True. The biggest advance in usable performance the last few years didn't come from faster processors but from SSDs.

• cowsandmilk 11y ago
  In 2014, I upgraded both my parent's computers to SSDs. Dad has a 2006 desktop. Mom has a 2010 laptop. They both boot extremely quickly, faster than anything new with a spinning disk.
• BurningFrog 11y ago
  But that wouldn't be important if people didn't want/need faster computers. See the "circular argument" argument above.
  • tamana 11y ago
    Moore's law is about cpu. Cpu got so far ahead of io that cpu starved. Io (SSD) became the bottleneck.
    • Tiksi 11y ago
      Moore's law is about transistor count/size/density, which ssds benefit from as well.