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yea so again the single spindle drive is slowing it down. the spindle drive doesn’t get faster because it has an SSD, if you read something from the spindle it will read at the same speed the spindle is rated at. after it’s loaded into the SSD then it’s faster. but only then

> Five disks are safer than a single disk (if you store things multiple times or with erasure coding), but if you stick all five disks in a single device, the safety gains are rather more limited.

There are devices called storage servers or NAS. this idea of not putting more than one spindle in a machine is foreign to me.