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Sounds like writing to disk always takes an unacceptably long time, so we should stop writing to disk and do something else. /s
by theandrewbailey 10mo ago
Sounds like writing to disk always takes an unacceptably long time, so we should stop writing to disk and do something else.
/s
- akotti 10mo agoIt's actually quite amusing how modern OSes can abstract, speed up and hide away those things that are still slow even on nowadays hardware.
- chemodax 10mo agoAs far I remember NAND/NOR memory (used for SSD) is very slow to *erase*. The erase operation can be performed only by big chunks, requires higher voltage etc. SSD vendors circumvent this by adding several layers of write buffers to achieve good test results.