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You could probably take this and replace HDD with SSD or RAM and it would be just as correct.
by stefan_ 6y ago
You could probably take this and replace HDD with SSD or RAM and it would be just as correct.
- bt1a 6y agoI don't believe these terms are interchangeable, especially when this writeup is in response to Chia. Is it possible SSD or RAM have a similar bottleneck like read/write heads? Yes, but I don't know the answer.
- akiselev 6y ago> Is it possible SSD or RAM have a similar bottleneck like read/write heads? Yes. You could replace "read/write heads" with "chips" and it'd apply just as easily to SSD and RAM. Texas's freak weather shut down Samsung's Texas fab which caused a shortage of SSD controller chips, for example. After the February outage, I don't think they started to tape out again until April.
- xondono 6y agoWell, the primary difference is that cloud providers go through HDDs almost as consumables, while RAM and SSD are generally more long lasting. Contracts are set up in similar ways, but HDDs in general have more constraints baked in those contracts.