On 4/25/2015 1:42 PM, Xinok wrote:
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.
I presume what sensible people wanting speed do is what I do - I have a 256Gb
SSD for my primary drive, and a 4TB drive as secondary.
Not to mention USB flash drives and SD cards which don't have the
performance characteristics of SSDs.
They wouldn't behave like spinning disks do, either.
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.
Um, it's currently optimized for HDs. But those aren't what people who want fast
IO use.
