I have a strong suspicion that difference is due to heat dissipation of differen...

		antonkochubey 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from... I have a strong suspicion that difference is due to heat dissipation of different form-factors, not due to connector. But yeah, it looks like whatever AWS is using is not on par with modern drives indeed, a factor of 10 to the drive you linked is a huge difference.