[Gllug] performance boost for linux

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On 11 Feb 2009, Peter Corlett uttered the following:
>                 The seek time on SSDs is about a four hundredth of a  
> hard disk

What? Its seek time is much closer to zero than that: flipping RAS as
well as CAS is a bit more expensive than staying within the same row,
but it's not that close to a disk seek in performance.

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