[jankotek]

Saturating modern SSDs is not that hard, if datastream is constant. Write performance usually degrades rapidly after couple of hours/days, once caches are filled and fragmentation grows.

But I totally agree modern SSDs will cause shift in computer and software architecture. Dealing with async disk IO is very frustrating.

[thu2111]

If you're relying on the SSD firmware wear leveling logic then yes, but the setups I'm talking about are more advanced than that. LSM trees only write in long contiguous regions and this enables things like zonedstorage.io which helps with fragmentation enormously.