[hyc_symas]

Your advice made sense in the age of rotating platter HDDs, limited to a max of ~120 IOPS. Today's world of NVMe SSDs makes your considerations obsolete.

[JulianMorrison]

There's an even older technology, battery backed RAM cached HDDs, that gives you everything an SSD can, except the thing you aren't actually using here, fast random-access read performance.

[blaisio]

That's not true. With SSDs we can sync with the disk more often, but it's still very slow.