Re: @Steven Jones (was:A death and decline so easily forseen...)
Yes, yes we've all heard the story that the highest bandwidth is a truckload of tapes going down the highway. However, bandwidth is not the defining difference between SSD and HDD, it's latency and it's that which is insoluble.
You can overcome bandwidth issues relatively easily (it's just expensive), but you can't beat the latency issue - and I speak as somebody who had to explain to a bunch of application developers on distributed systems that what they were up against was essentially the speed of light. We also know what root SUN went with their threaded architecture processors which were pretty good on throughput, but crap on latency which made them highly unsuited to some problems. Latency matters, and it matters more and more as systems get integrated yet we sill demand instance responses.
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