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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by rocqua on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:25AM (#24018440)
they optimized for current hardware, sacrificing some performance on outdated hardware.

I'd rather windows uses my SSD to the fullest, than that it makes concessions to spinning disks.

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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by badsectoracula on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:54AM (#24020094)
How is Windows using SSD to its fullest? All it seems to be doing is taking advantage of the greater speed to perform more I/O that it didn't do before which negates any performance improvements the SSD brings.
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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by treve on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:09AM (#24018967)
I'm not sure this is the right take, as I don't believe it's a matter of choosing to optimize for SSD vs. HDD's. Disks got faster, so the bar for baseline acceptable performance got higher.
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