He addresses this 
>It turns out the disk latency is irrelevant for this, since the Raft algorithm will just commit multiple transactions together to disk. 

chaoticalHeavy

I haven’t gotten all the way through but iirc raft wouldn’t have much throughput. They must be syncing using some other method.

k00b

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