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by jjcm 5595 days ago
What surprised me was that they were using 15k rpm drives over SSD's for database lookups. Any idea why?
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icefox 5595 days ago
Asked them about this recently and the answer was that the io wasn't a problem. Better bang for their buck elsewhere.
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alanh 5595 days ago
Well, it’s 2009.
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m0shen 5595 days ago
Better $/gb right now? Maybe they just don't require the performance?
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cullenking 5595 days ago
SSD's can't handle the amount of writes github tosses at them.
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