Re:Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't ca...
by marcan_42 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:47AM
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I mean, typical seek time on rust is O(10ms) and these controllers are spending 20ms flushing a few sectors. Obviously rust would do worse if you have the cache full of random writes, though. The problem here is the huge base cost.
Btw, are you sure those spinning disks are actually flushing to rust? Caches all the way down... ;-)