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by hodgesrm 1135 days ago
> Off the shelf hardware running untuned servers with reasonable algorithms have so much bandwidth and capability, just gets harder and harder to saturate today.

Interestingly that's not necessarily the case in the public cloud. I'm messing around with AWS storage for an upcoming talk. You definitely can saturate storage on AWS, and it's sometimes hard to tell why.