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the price-points for the two are way off the scale e.g. on newegg, a 120gb ssd is expensive than 1tb 7200rpm sata..


But you get tens of thousands IOPS instead of hundreds


Which may be important, or may be utterly worthless. It's like "total cost of ownership" FUD, numbers are useless outside their original context, and everybody has a different context.


This. For many high perf applications, anything outside of RAM (yes, even with SSD's) is a no-no.




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