I found the SSD discussion very useful. Bottom line is that deleting (or rewriting) data causes unpredictable and degraged write performance due to "write ampl

I found the SSD discussion very useful. Bottom line is that deleting (or rewriting) data causes unpredictable and degraged write performance due to "write amplification". Sticking to appends-only writes keeps things fast. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from watching the video. At least read the slides! http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aar-2012/slides/MartinThompson_MythbustingModernHardwareToGainMechanicalSympathy.pdf http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aar-2012/slides/MartinThompson_My...