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Re:Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP by wtallis on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:24AM (#39679901)
The main problem is that random writes tend to be smaller than the NAND flash erase block size, which is in the range of several MB.

You can check literally any SSD benchmark that tests both random and sequential IO. They're both vastly better than a mechanical hard drive, but sequential IO is still faster than random IO.

Re:Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @05:28PM (#39685190)
Seems to be the case, to some degree. My SSD is 8% slower doing random writes. I guess your mileage may vary.