Am Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:53:20PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb: > Thanks for all the replies so far : they have been carefully saved. > Clearly, I need to look up component specs on the I/net > & try to get upto-date with 2020s tech after 6,5 yr absence. > > I don't do gaming : SGT puzzles are enough for me.
Then—from a graphics viewpoint—the 5700G will do just fine and then some. Unfortunately, AMD does not currently cater well to the lower- or medium-tier market, because at Intel you would still get a decent CPU for half the price (at least here in Europe) *including* acceptable graphics. There is the 5600G, which is the same as the 5700G, only with a little bit slower clock and six cores instead of eight (including 2 threads per core, of course), in case you want to save some more. I don’t suppose you have high computational demands either, save for compiling packages? > I use the HDD strictly for back-up + storage of infrequently used data > + a Mint partition which allows me to use my scanner (another story). Then there is no acute need for a “hot-head” fast disk. > I don't want to have to rely entirely on an SSD which might fail suddenly : I never lost that fear entirely myself. However, I’ve been using SSDs since I built the PC that I was talking about. By now I own four -- I started out in 2014 with a small and cheap Sandisk as system SSD for the PC. Another even cheaper (thus slower) Sandisk works as system SSD in my Gentoo-based NAS. In 2016 I bought a Crucial BX100 500 GB for the then-new laptop as main drive. After a few years it became too small and was upgraded to a Crucial MX100 2 TB. The 500 GB then went into the PC to replace the puny Sandisk, and will probably soon go into a Mini-PC-as-a-server, once I get that 2 TB M.2. I haven’t had any total failures yet. (Sooner or later, everything fails, of course.) I recently looked at the SMART values and in those 6 years (half Gentoo, half Arch linux), the 500 GB SSD saw 6 TB of write volume. The guaranteed volume is 72 TB. Tests by the press proved that drives usually survive a multiple of that. Oh, I did buy an M.2 2242 for an external enclosure once, and that one was—not dead—but quite sick on arrival. It puked SMART errors soon after I purchased it and then I never got around to send it back. I guess I bought too cheap for my own good. But regarding those failures: I do regular (once a week, which I sometimes forget) backups of my whole PC and laptop to an external HDD with Borg backup. Then I rsync that backup to another USB disk. And I also sync much of my data between the two multiple times a day with Unison. So I should be fine if one of the SSDs fails suddenly. *fingers crossed* -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Why did the orange go blind? Because it was low on Vitamin C.
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