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		bombcar on Aug 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme... Spinning rust can get well above 185MB/s on a single disk if you're sequential.

londons_explore on Aug 16, 2022 [–]

And all random write workloads can be turned into sequential write workloads, either with clever design, or with something like logfs.

singron on Aug 16, 2022 | [–]

They are using a ScyllaDB, which is based on lsm trees, so all writes should already be sequential.

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