Indeed. IOPS has been the achilles head of magnetic disks for time eternal. But ultimately calling these "myths" is somewhat absurd. Everything is relative. Re

Indeed. IOPS has been the achilles head of magnetic disks for time eternal. But ultimately calling these "myths" is somewhat absurd. Everything is relative. Relative to a magnetic hard drive, main memory offers impossibly fast random access. Sure, it's slow compared to cache memory, but that is a different discussion, and a different level of optimization. Similarly, when your SSD offers you 10s to 100s of thousands of random seeks per second, it is a universe better than the 10s to low 100 of a magnetic disk.