Comment by forrestthewoods

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.