>But everyone seemed to be flocking to them. To the point we have young Devs tod...

justsomehnguy · 2024-12-22T22:32:56 1734906776

> Which certainly seems late in the cycle for the benefits of what SSD offers.

90% of emails are never read, 9% are read once. What SSD could offer for this use case except at least 2x cost ?

bluGill · 2024-12-22T22:46:22 1734907582

Don't forget that fastmail is through an internet transport with enough latency to make hdd seek times noise

brongondwana · 2024-12-22T22:39:18 1734907158

We adopted SSD for the current week's email and rust for the deeper storage many years ago. A few years ago we switched to everything on NVMe, so there's no longer two tiers of storage. That's when the pricing switched to make it worthwhile.

matt-p · 2024-12-22T21:21:29 1734902489

Colo is typically sold on power not space, from your example you're either getting ripped off if it's for low power servers or massively undercharged for a 4xa100 machine

kapone · 2024-12-23T02:20:59 1734920459

What??

I can get an entire rack at Equinix for ~1200/mo with an unlimited 10g internet connect.

flemhans · 2024-12-22T20:48:05 1734900485

HDDs are still the best option for many workloads, including email.