Am I correct in assuming that the performance improvements of SSDs are worthless for your use case?<p>It seems like the workload of Backblaze (like many &quot;big data&quot; workloads) is such that the extra IOPS don&#x27;t actually help.<p>With thousands of drive spindles, and a very small portion of the data on on the spindles being needed at any given moment, I don&#x27;t imagine you are actually limited by the performance of spinning rust.