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by jeffbee 1183 days ago
It seems to me extremely unlikely that an HDD has anywhere near the sustained write performance of a proper SSD. E.g. a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB will write at ~2GB/s indefinitely (well, until you wear it out, which at that rate will only take about 2 days). That's the aggregate speed of a whole box full of HDDs.