Cache miss latency was the first thing that popped into my mind as well when I saw the title.<p>It seems like they don&#x27;t make a clear distinction between latency and bandwidth. From the little I know on SSDs(don&#x27;t claim to be an expert here) the sequential reads are below or on-par with high spindle speed disks.<p>What seems to be a better take-away would be that sequencing of your reads isn&#x27;t nearly as important as it used to be. Back in games we&#x27;d duplicate data across a DVD so that we could do &quot;seekfree&quot; loading where duplicating 5-10MB of data would mean just a single big call to read() and gain massive load time performance.