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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by CyberDildonics on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:15PM (#15803625)
That would mean that the bandwidth from the hard drive is a large bottleneck, which I have a hard time believing is true.
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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by phkahler on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:44PM (#15803749)
AFAIK Doing error correction on 4K blocks of data is fairly non-trivial. Using custom instructions may be a benefit here too.

https://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/advanced-format-4k-sec...

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by CyberDildonics on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:55PM (#15812054)
The parent post was talking about user accessible CPUs for running instructions closer to the data on the hard drive. Error correction being trivial or not, I don't think that is user facing software.
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