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Spinning HDDs have ~3MB on the outer track and 1MB on the inner track. 7200rpm/60 * 3MB = 360MB/second for sequential outer track reads. Source: I wrote S3's on-disk placement algo…

One thing all the posts like this miss is you don't pay sticker price at modest scale. And if you're a whale who can move your workload around to generate competitive bids, you can…