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> Which certainly seems late in the cycle for the benefits of what SSD offers.

90% of emails are never read, 9% are read once. What SSD could offer for this use case except at least 2x cost ?

Don't forget that fastmail is through an internet transport with enough latency to make hdd seek times noise

We adopted SSD for the current week's email and rust for the deeper storage many years ago. A few years ago we switched to everything on NVMe, so there's no longer two tiers of storage. That's when the pricing switched to make it worthwhile.

Colo is typically sold on power not space, from your example you're either getting ripped off if it's for low power servers or massively undercharged for a 4xa100 machine

What??

I can get an entire rack at Equinix for ~1200/mo with an unlimited 10g internet connect.

HDDs are still the best option for many workloads, including email.