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		chrisandchris 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thous... How is a SAN faster than a local disk? Any references / recommendations?

immibis 31 days ago | [–]

Probably comparing a HDD SAN (with data spread across many drives) to a single local HDD.

samarthr1 31 days ago | [–]

I would expect by the magic of parallelism?

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