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With SSDs you really feel the performance difference (especially latency) in everyday life. Someone who had experienced an SSD never wanted to go back to a HDD
by pantalaimon 3y ago
With SSDs you really feel the performance difference (especially latency) in everyday life. Someone who had experienced an SSD never wanted to go back to a HDD for storing anything but data, since program start-up times are just so much faster when there is no mechanical seeking involved.
The difference between Optane and an SSD was never so striking.
- keyringlight 3y agoAt least for consumer devices, I think the 'primordial soup' spark of motivation was the original lean and mean netbooks (with the initial push to web apps over running full clients locally, before they became low spec windows laptops), with compact flash ATA adapters to displace HDDs. Power consumption was a factor as well IIRC