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A nanosecond is 1 billionth of a second. A millisecond is 1 thousandth of a second.

1/1000000000 vs. 1/1000

Six orders of magnitude.

Edit: your point may hold true as I'm not sure SSD access or seek times are in the 10ns range.


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