> why bother? It's practically the same delay to access the nearest data center's SSD as your own
Except it's not. And 700Mbps is still only about 1/3 of the throughput of current cheap-ish laptop SSD's, and a magnitude less than higher end server grade SSD setups...
We've got quite a way to go yet, and for many types of applications, latency will remain a reason for local storage "forever" for the simple reason of speed of light.
Except it's not. And 700Mbps is still only about 1/3 of the throughput of current cheap-ish laptop SSD's, and a magnitude less than higher end server grade SSD setups...
We've got quite a way to go yet, and for many types of applications, latency will remain a reason for local storage "forever" for the simple reason of speed of light.