Linus Torvalds compared hard drives with Satan

Linus Torvalds is known as a person who does not hesitate to express his opinion in a categorical form. A year ago, he called SUSE Linux developers "idiots" for their approach to OS security, most recently he showed Nvidia's finger .

Last week, Linus held a question and answer session with Slashdot readers and also told a lot of interesting things. For example, he strongly opposed the use of HDD in a personal computer. Torvalds himself uses laptops and desktops exclusively with SSD.

One reader asked about data storage systems: “Now the Ceph file system is on the rise, it is included in the main core, what other innovations in data storage systems (or at a low level) do you see in the future?”

Linus replied: “I’m not really an expert on storage systems, but I’m doing a high-level support for the kernel, so this question is better for asking someone else.
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I just want to repeat my (personal) opinion on this issue again: I think that the rotating disks will repeat the fate of the magnetic tape. "How I hate them, can not imagine." Delays on rotating media are terrible, and I personally can’t force myself to use a computer with these dirty pieces of rust in it.

Of course, maybe spinning discs are suitable for large NAS, where large media files are stored (or in a cluster of cloud storage that you access over the network and for which disk access delays are secondary), but on a real computer? Phew Satan, go away!

I didn’t answer the question you asked, but I don’t really share all the excitement around storage systems. ”