New hardware for one of our homestaking computers arrived! NVMe is the fastest memory you can get. You need these because blockchain applications are I/O bound. While in theory these drives read and write 8GB/s, the reality is different -- when the drives are used constantly, performance drops dramatically.

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In specific, SSDs are almost worse than HDDs, because SSDs saturate their cache faster. This causes the performance to drop from 500MB/s to around 30MB/s. We run 6x8TB Samsung drives on RAID10 on one of our machines, and it cannot keep up with Ethereum L1 using Erigon.