[lysace]

I liked the part about them manually retrofitting an SSD in every EBS unit in 2013. That looks a lot like a Samsung SATA SSD:

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/images/mo-manual-ssd.pn...

I think we got SSDs installed in blades from Dell well before that, but I may be misremembering.

I/O performance was a big thing in like 2010/2011/2012. We went from spinning HDs to Flash memory.

I remember experimenting with these raw Flash-based devices, no error/wear level handling at all. Insanity, but we were all desperate for that insane I/O performance bump from spinning rust to silicon.

[BikiniPrince]

It was only a handful of frankenracks. It was challenging and not very performant, but it let everyone get a jump on the research. Disk speed was increasing so fast in six months the first SKU was out of date. I’m glad I didn’t have to make the argument directly to assets when we retired those racks years earlier than planned. The rack positions were so much more valuable with the new denser and faster models.