SSD offloading tradeoff: Faster GPUs need faster SSDs to hide latency

antirez · x · 2026-08-31

antirez notes that the SSD parallel loading approach depends on GPU speed: faster GPUs reduce the time window for loading, demanding faster SSDs, though he believes the performance penalty will be limited.

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