On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 20:12:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Hard disks are dead today for anyone who cares about
performance.
I still use them, but only for secondary storage.
For anybody who wants to buy 4TB of storage for $100, hard drives
are still very much alive. Not to mention USB flash drives and SD
cards which don't have the performance characteristics of SSDs.
Let's not be so hasty. Until SSDs truly replace all other forms
of storage, it's best that we don't optimize D and Phobos for one
type of storage only.
