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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by justsomehnguy on Sunday December 22, 2024 @05:32PM (#42489746)
> Which certainly seems late in the cycle for the benefits of what SSD offers.

90% of emails are never read, 9% are read once. What SSD could offer for this use case except at least 2x cost ?

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by bluGill on Sunday December 22, 2024 @05:46PM (#42489839)
Don't forget that fastmail is through an internet transport with enough latency to make hdd seek times noise
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