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		brown9-2 on Jan 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Handling Growth with Postgres This would seem to assume that this is the only operation that hypothetical machine would need to handle.

hosay123 on Jan 18, 2013 [–]

Good point, although it's still within the remit of a cheap SSD, e.g. the Crucial M4 can push 40k+ IOPs. My remark was more geared towards silly but awesome sounding statistics than anything else, it really undermines otherwise decent content.

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