Wow I love that.
Many people in our profession didn't seem to really notice when the number of IOPS on predominant storage media went from under 200 to well over 100,000 in a matter of just a few years.
I remember evaluating and using clusters of stuff like Cassandra back in the late 00s because it just wasn't possible to push enough data to disk to keep up with traffic on a single machine. It's such an insanely different scenario now.
