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Dave Mateer
Personal blog · davemateer.com · on HN as davemateerprogrammingsystems
Dave Mateer's personal blog at davemateer.com covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “A HDD is a bad idea! Disk Performance review of an HDD / SSD / SSD M.2 NVMe”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Helldivers 2 disk-size thread as a source of benchmarks for a 2015 hard disk drive. The comment cites it for HDD seek and IOPS figures, and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
In depth articles on software production
Most-linked posts?
- A HDD is a bad idea! Disk Performance review of an HDD / SSD / SSD M.2 NVMe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-30
- C# DB Dapper Queries resilient with retries using Polly.Contrib.WaitAndRetry2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-14
What Hacker News says?
>I haven't found any asynchronous IOPS numbers on HDDS anywhere. The internet IOPs are just 1000ms/seek time with a 8ms seek time for moving from the outer to the inner track, which is only really relevant for the synchronous file IO case. >For asynchronous IO you can just do inward/outward passes to amortize the seek time over multiple files. Here's a random blog post that has benchmarks for a 2015 HDD: https://dav…
Comment linking /2020/04/19/Disk-performance-CrystalDiskMark-HDD-vs-SSD
on “Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction”Submitted Bashtop Linux resource monitor – it is great as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe recent livereload feature on Jekyll coupled with running Jekyll locally in Docker works well me. https://davemateer.com/jekyl/2018/01/25/Jekyll-and-Docker.ht...
Comment linking /jekyl/2018/01/25/Jekyll-and-Docker.html
on “Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo”Submitted C# DB Dapper Queries resilient with retries using Polly.Contrib.WaitAndRetry as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chrome Extension's – what are my favourites and how to get started developing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lets Encrypt for Administrator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Jekyll on WSL2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19 Lockdown and coping with a young family as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A HDD is a bad idea! Disk Performance review of an HDD / SSD / SSD M.2 NVMe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OneNote with Vim bindings is giving me great joy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improve at Programming Using Project Euler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wordpress Persistence in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dapper and Polly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development machine setup is important – story of mostly getting mine working as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taming the ubiquitous beast of complexity with Donut functions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous concurrency with async await and Task controlling HttpClient as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extract Transform Load with C# – Beginners Guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted .NET Core 3.1 single exe Console App (smaller) as a story · 1 points
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