Exploring the Performance Differences of Kafka on HDD vs. SSD

DevOps Kafka
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Hi guys, is it true that Kafka performs better when using HDD disks instead of SSDs? Are there any documentation or articles about that?

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https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/9/is-sequential-io-dead-in-the-era-of-the-nvme-drive|https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/9/is-sequential-io-dead-in-the-era-of-the-nvme-drive

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TLDR; no. With a heavy dose of maybe. If you take the money you’d spend on spinning disks over SSDs and put that towards ram you might(unlikely) come out with lower latency for MOST workloads