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Re:Strategy: Run A Scalable, Available, And Cheap Static Sit... by rythie on Monday August 22, 2011 @02:24PM (#2913460)
Whilst CPUs can do billions of operations a second, a traditional hard disk still only does 200 seeks/second at a 5ms seek time. SSDs still aren't common on hosting solutions.
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