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So somebody tweeted about the Seagate Mach.2, a harddisk with two independent heads “combs”, and I commented in german: “It’s two drives in one chassis, even shown as two drives. And it still is rotating rust, so slow with seeks. Linear IO will be fine.”
This is quite unexpected because SSDs are orders of magnitude faster than traditional HDDs.
The first flash-based SSDs used SATA/SAS physical interfaces borrowed from existing hard drive-based enterprise server/ storage systems. However, none of these interfaces and protocols were designed for high-speed storage media and the SATA/SAS bus became a bottleneck for the much faster SSD.
The initial fix was SSDs on a PCI Express (PCIe) card. While much faster, PCIe was also proprietary and meant as a point-to-point transfer. A PCIe SSD in one server could not be directly accessed by any other server, it had to go through the system bus, adding all kinds of latency.
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