in this video I explain how database systems store their data on Disk both f from SSD (solid-state drives) and HDD (HarD disk drive). There are many factors that go into that discussion so I tried to cover the high level here. Reseources https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/210492-extremetech-explains-how-do-ssds-work https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/12/18/give-love-to-your-ssds-reduce-innodb_io_capacity_max/