I don't think this is true for the general case, though. At some point one has to declare that the data has "arrived" in its usable form at the destination, and RAM seems like the wrong threshold (since, for now, it's volatile).
Although one could consider HDDs to be immediately usable at the destination once they're "plugged in", there are too many exceptions (including good reasons not to re-use a device subjected to such conditions in production) just to assume it's true.
If they were SSDs, I might agree, but those are still too expensive for the use case.
Although one could consider HDDs to be immediately usable at the destination once they're "plugged in", there are too many exceptions (including good reasons not to re-use a device subjected to such conditions in production) just to assume it's true.
If they were SSDs, I might agree, but those are still too expensive for the use case.