Damus
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The random-access speed of hard disk drives hasn't changed much over the years. It's about 3MB/second now, and unless I'm mistaken, that's what it's been for 20+ years now.

RAM capacity got bigger over the years and so did #HDD capacity, but HDD random-access speed didn't.

This is a serious problem. You have 16GB of RAM, but it'll take a long time to load that much from files scattered around the disk.

Which is why we're all using an #SSD now: it can fill your 16GB of RAM much more quickly.
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Nazo · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9zsljfx8tjyzplququr9xmqctclx0qc2mw5xydzx0udqzrfade4qmtrtl5 I think you're missing a digit... I understand when you say random access you mean accounting for seek latency assuming it has to do a lot of seeking, but I don't think even the slowest...