[ajross]

That's... not at all what I'm seeing. Very broadly: at high queue depths and on mostly sequential data, it's competitive with and slightly better than the flash devices. At low queue depths and on random data (pretty much exactly where "consumers" live) it's much, much faster. Like, 4x the scores in s a bunch of those tests.

Now... to be fair consumers applications in the modern cloudworld are generally not storage-limited. So maybe your point is defensible in a specious sense. But as actual performance measurements go, these really are ripping fast drives.