>"Also, consider that if you can only read at 100 MB/s off a mechanical drive but your CPU can decompress data at ~500 MB/s then the mechanical drive is able to provide 5x the throughput you'd otherwise expect thanks to compression."
I'd not really thought of that aspect before... My old brain is hard-coded to save cpu cycles ... Time to change my ways :)
I'd not really thought of that aspect before... My old brain is hard-coded to save cpu cycles ... Time to change my ways :)