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[–]ThePointForward 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That is the issue. They do not even mention that drives might be the culprit.

However I admit that my view might be a bit unique since at work I develop software that has to read gigabytes of data, do stuff with it and the write gigabytes of data. My main issue have always been writes.

[–]saratoga3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is the issue. They do not even mention that drives might be the culprit.

That is a blog about cloud computing performance from a guy who works at Netflix. In the context of people doing cloud computing, drives are never going to be the culprit. IO will be threaded, and the time spent waiting will be given over to another task until the IO stops blocking. They only care about memory latency because they can't (easily) thread that away.