On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 03:38:59 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> With servers it is almost always the IO speed that dominates - disk IO
> or network IO - there is the square root of sweet fanny adam's amount of
> computing power done in serving files.

 Very true, unless of course you go for encrypted storage or the
extreme compression techniques that are becoming popular for near-line
archives.

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