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Probably fast solid state hard drives. That technology isn’t underestimated but it is under appreciated due to prohibitive price barriers. On modern computers t
by austincheney 6y ago
Probably fast solid state hard drives. That technology isn’t underestimated but it is under appreciated due to prohibitive price barriers. On modern computers the slowest low level performance, hands down, is walking a large file system. It’s hard to say what capabilities will exist once that performance barrier is lifted from common users because it will expose capabilities that have never been computationally convenient.
- quickthrower2 6y agoAnd what of HDDs that do compute tasks in addition to IO as an underestimated thing?
- paulcnichols 6y agoIs this not here already?
- mtmail 6y agoYes, but costs a premium currently. Intel Optane product line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint tech) benchmarks: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z8YFAHnD7uYd8jPSx5scJN-970-80.png.webp https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z8YFAHnD7uYd8jPSx5scJN-970...