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maccard
34 days ago
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I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thous...
Even without that, you are still at the heart of it accessing over a SAN like interface with some sort of local cache. Getting an actual local drive on AWS the performance is night and day
pnutjam
34 days ago
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Sure, you can work around it; but it blows up the savings alot of people expect when they don't include this in their math.
Also, SAN is often faster then local disk if you have a local SAN.
chrisandchris
33 days ago
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How is a SAN faster than a local disk? Any references / recommendations?
immibis
32 days ago
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Probably comparing a HDD SAN (with data spread across many drives) to a single local HDD.
samarthr1
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I would expect by the magic of parallelism?
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