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SamReidHughes2

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    Comment #7521037

    It's a definition of what "2" means.

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    Comment #7377523

    You can always saturate a storage subsystem -- add more clients (assuming you don't saturate the CPU, the CPU's memory bandwidth, or the network interface -- any of which can happe…

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    Comment #7377097

    > , an SSD is necessary in order to guarantee something is on stable storage with latency better than spindles can provide Interestingly enough, if we ignore current hard drive fir…

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    Comment #7377053

    > I don't know what the intended use case actually is, Generally speaking, if you've got a database system of some sort and want to write data to a file. > It's still not enough: w…

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    Comment #7376635

    What bodyfour is proposing is not just getting a write-notification -- it's in tandem with being able to specify write ordering. If you need to be able to specify write ordering, y…

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    Comment #7311441

    You can also get much faster secure random numbers.

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    Comment #7301872

    Where does this article say that?

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    Comment #7218991

    It has 7 to 8 hours of battery life, not 1 hour. edit: According to the tech specs it will get a 1 hour charge after the first 3 minutes of charging. I have the previous water-resi…