SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud

Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by dekhn on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @04:09PM (#39446940)

"Physically attached" has had a fairly well defined meaning and i don't normally expect a cloud provider to play word salad to convince me a network drive is locally attached (like I said, if true, I would need to have a chat with my TAM about it).

Physically attached for servers, for the past 20+ years, has meant a direct electrical connection to a host bus (such as the PCI bus attached to the front-side bus). I'd like to see some alternative examples that violate that convention.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:25PM (#39447819)

Ethernet cables are physical...

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by dekhn on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:34PM (#39447896)

The NIC is attached to the host bus through the north bridge. But other hosts on the same ethernetwork are not considered to be "local". We dont need to get crazy about teh semantics to know that when a cloud provider says an SSD is locally attached, that it's closer than an ethernetwork away.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by SteveNuts on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:25PM (#39450138)

If that’s the game we’re going to play then technically my driveway is on the same road as the White House.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:51PM (#39450275)

exactly. it's not about what's good for the consumer, it's about what they can do without losing a lawsuit for false advertising.

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