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    Good question, tough "and SSD disks have very complicated garbage collection" I feel this is too abstract, can you lay out? Commented Sep 22, 2019 at 17:45
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    @tungsten You can start there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory_controller Commented Sep 22, 2019 at 17:48
  • also note, that despite urandom being slow, it is still faster than the majority of consumer hard disk drives Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 5:26
  • @RichieFrame I think that's outdated. Samsung 860 EVO is a popular consumer drive, and it gives 520MB/sec sequential writes. NVMe drives are not expensive and give ~1800MB/s sequential writes. Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 5:34
  • @Z.T. hence why I said hard DISK drives, my 6-driveraid6 array pulls about 250MB/s, even though each individually does 160MB/s sequentially raw, which is typical for an enterprise grade 7200rpm SATA drive Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 5:52