Coding for solid state drives

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/25/2015 1:42 PM, Xinok wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 20:12:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Hard disks are dead today for anyone who cares about performance.
>>
>> I still use them, but only for secondary storage.
>
> For anybody who wants to buy 4TB of storage for $100, hard drives are still very
> much alive.

I presume what sensible people wanting speed do is what I do - I have a 256Gb 
SSD for my primary drive, and a 4TB drive as secondary.


> Not to mention USB flash drives and SD cards which don't have the
> performance characteristics of SSDs.

They wouldn't behave like spinning disks do, either.


> Let's not be so hasty. Until SSDs truly replace all other forms of storage, it's
> best that we don't optimize D and Phobos for one type of storage only.

Um, it's currently optimized for HDs. But those aren't what people who want fast 
IO use.