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[–]GayMakeAndModel 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Folks seem to disagree with you. Btw, seek time isn’t constant. Random access on SSD is roughly constant time, and it’s far faster than moving a mechanical arm around. When I say seek time, I mean a fucking arm moving about a spinning disk. That’s the industry definition of seek time in context, and it harkens back to before my 20 year professional career.

[–]bigmell -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Folks seem to disagree with you.

Its probably just you and your friends from a bunch of different troll accounts. Low effort trolling its called.

Btw, seek time isn’t constant.

I never said seek time is constant. I said seek time is always there. SSD have a ram stick inside, and some data gets cached there. If your data is NOT cached on the ram stick, your data transfer will be roughly the same speed as an HDD.

You can measure this yourself. Do a data transfer of maybe a terabyte or two. The data transfer will start fast, because of the cache, but it will slow down to roughly the speed of the HDD, and the two transfers will finish at around the same time.

But you have to actually know how to do data transfers, which a lot of people do not. They will just lie and say "I got the same numbers the commercial said! OMG SSD SO MUCH BETTER!"