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Mechanical vs. Solid State Drives, Or Walter's Multithreaded I/O Redux

Walter Bright's recent article about moving from a familiar mechanical hard-disk drive with its "motors and levers and gears and spinning things" to a newer solid-state drive (SSD) was fascinating for a lot of reasons, ranging from the D programming language and multithreading to the issue of adopting new technologies in general.

April 13, 2009
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/mechanical-vs-solid-state-drives-or-walt/228700141