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Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by freakwit on Friday August 06, 2010 @10:21PM (#1582925)
What sort of problems are people thinking of?

SSDs have been a big speed improvement - have they enabled new developments?

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Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by jfarmer on Saturday August 07, 2010 @01:07AM (#1583089)
RethinkDB thinks so.
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Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by jakevoytko on Saturday August 07, 2010 @07:31AM (#1583428)
In mobile robotics you can record data on the move without worrying about damaging the disk or enduring sudden massive write latencies. So you get more interesting datasets using SSDs than you could with traditional disks.
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