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How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

50 pointsby matt_dyesterday at 10:23 PM5 commentsview on HN

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dofi4kayesterday at 11:12 PM

I feel fooled after clicking on the link and seeing that this PDF is downloading (or just literally writing to my SSD) until I realized that this is the point

Dwedittoday at 12:01 AM

SMR Hard Drives have very different rules about how you should access them vs conventional hard drives or SSDs. I wonder how much optimizing for SMR drives (Big sequential writes) would also optimize for other drive types.

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itsthecourieryesterday at 11:43 PM

this is the kind of research that creates new db types, or super optimized postgres im not sure yet

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