[rossdavidh]

Interesting, and fun to read and think about! And, as a professional programmer for 17 years now, not once have I done anything where this would have been important for me to know (even if I had been running my code on a system with SSD's). So, I'm not convinced the title is at all accurate.

But, fun to read and think about.

[cottsak]

I think the key is hidden in > which can help creating software that is capable of exploiting them

Unless you're writing desktop software or your application behaves in a way where you have actually selected the particular hardware components (most of us in cloud hosting don't do this), you probably don't [need to] care.