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Re:Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023 by usrn on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:40PM (#31669981)
Of course they are, Windows is unusable with them and that makes the user aware of all the insane stuff in the background saturating the IO bandwidth.
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Re:Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023 by Comevius on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:48PM (#31671289)
It's totally all the stuff Windows is doing in the background, on Linux with at least 16 GB RAM the difference between a HDD and SSD is less striking. Caching, the BFQ scheduler, and having a lean system goes far.
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