Comment by dylan604
2 days ago
Right? I’m comparing my direct experience of enduring the pain of slower than Christmas HDDs to the incredible speeds of SSDs, and get a well actually it’s not SSDs that are fast blah blah. Look dude, I don’t care about your magic smoke that you’re so smart you know how the smoke is made. I just care that I can transfer data at blisteringly fast speeds. I couldn’t care less about QLC, SLC, or TLC because reading/writing at >2GB/s is all the tender loving care I need. Don’t rain on my parade because you’re jaded.
I haven’t had a spinning platter in my dev machine since I think 2008 or 2009. Even back then an SSD was the single biggest upgrade I’d seen the first 3D accelerator cards in the late 90s. (Oh god I’m old).
More recently we saw SSDs get added to video game consoles and load times are about 4x faster. And that’s with code/data optimized for a spinning plate not an SSD.
I know they aren’t actually magic. But they might as well be! I’d love to hear details on what weird conditions reduce their performance by 10x. That’d be cool and fun to know. Alas.