Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
by ants_a on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @03:29AM
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Networking doesn't have to have high latency. You can buy network hardware that is able to provide sub-microsecond latency. Physical distance still matters, but 10% of typical NVMe latency gets you through a kilometer of fiber.
10GbE is about the best you can hope for from a local network these days, but that's 1/5th the bandwidth and many times the latency. 100GbE would work, except the latency would still mean any read dependencies would be far slower than local storage, and I'm not sure there's much to be done about that; at these speeds the physical distance matters.
In practice I'm having to architecture the entire system around the SSD just to not bottleneck it. So far ext4 is the only filesystem that even gets close to the SSD's limits, which is a bit of a pity.