I had one of these, same model as the author and around the same time. Was running some sort of desktop Linux, maybe Fedora? Either way, latency really is the k

I had one of these, same model as the author and around the same time. Was running some sort of desktop Linux, maybe Fedora? Either way, latency really is the key. It’s hard to grasp just how much quicker even a cheap SSD is for random I/O today.