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The major improvement coming from SSDs is that seek time no longer kills you. People will notice a difference going from random access on a rotational drive to
by leif 17y ago
The major improvement coming from SSDs is that seek time no longer kills you. People will notice a difference going from random access on a rotational drive to random access on an SSD; sequential access, not so much.
- Retric 17y agoMy point was while SSD seek time is 1/100th HDD seek time you don't get anywhere near that big a jump. Because, while a HDD might take 100x as long to get you the first bit, HDD and SSD take about the same amount of time to read the rest of 4kb the sector.