The operating system will try to save each segment of a file in a sequential fashion on disk. Why is it such a huge deal to use magnetic drives, exactly? Do you think SSDs are important if nobody uses them? Do you know why this is happening?

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The operating system will try to save each segment of a file in a sequential fashion on disk. Why is it such a huge deal to use magnetic drives, exactly?
Do you think SSDs are important if nobody uses them? Do you know why this is happening?

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