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Re:Readings in Databases by neilc on Friday August 29, 2014 @03:17PM (#8244080)
perhaps the deprecation of spinning disks has reduced the complexity of the issue

SSDs are much more complicated than spinning disks, so if anything the problem has gotten worse.

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Re:Readings in Databases by tinco on Friday August 29, 2014 @04:04PM (#8244269)
Are they? see I really need articles about this :) I thought higher bandwidth and lower seek times meant less complexity, but I could be mistaken.
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Re:Readings in Databases by walterbell on Saturday August 30, 2014 @09:30AM (#8246391)
Firmware on the SSD is actively in the data path, e.g. wear-levelling to ensure that many writes to a single file does not cause a particular block to wear out much earlier than other blocks, reducing overall capacity of the drive.
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