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> NVMe reads are still an “I/O” and that is slow

It's orders of magnitude faster than SAS/SATA SSDs and you can throw 10 of them into 1U server. It's nowhere near "slow" and still easy enough to be CPU bottlenecked before you get IO bottlenecked.

But yes, pair of 1TB RAM servers gotta cost you less than half year's worth of developer salary




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