WHY YOUR SSD (PROBABLY) SUCKS AND WHAT YOUR DATABASE CAN DO ABOUT IT

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

SSDs have a fast read and write throughput, but also suffer from high latency during write operations. To mitigate this issue, database systems use techniques like group commits and asynchronous processing. Enterprise-grade SSDs with capacitor-backed write caches can alleviate the latency problem, but at a higher cost.