Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 10:51:42 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 3 April 2020 16:14:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Well, raw throughput is great ’n all, but in real-life you won’t notice > > much difference between a SATA and an NVME drive. > > Not so. The difference is dramatic. F

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 11:38:48 BST Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 10:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Also, you don't need a fancy gui for nvme temperature. nvme smart-log > /dev/nvme0 will tell you the temperature from console. Thanks for the pointer. # nvme smart-log

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-04 Thread Alexandru N. Barloiu
On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 10:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 3 April 2020 16:14:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Well, raw throughput is great ’n all, but in real-life you won’t > > notice much > > difference between a SATA and an NVME drive. > > Not so. The difference is dramatic.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 3 April 2020 16:14:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Well, raw throughput is great ’n all, but in real-life you won’t notice much > difference between a SATA and an NVME drive. Not so. The difference is dramatic. > The bottleneck quickly becomes > the CPU again during boot or loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-03 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:45:58AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: >>> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go from BIOS or Grub to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:45:58AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > > > >> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > >> Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > >> from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:28 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > >> > >> I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years > >> old) from the likes of Asrock wou

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: >> >> I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years >> old) from the likes of Asrock would be able to boot from an NVMe card >> using a PCIe adapter like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > > > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > > Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > > from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O > > I've bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:57:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > mfsmaster ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1 > > /dev/nvme0n1: > Timing cached reads: 8524 MB in 1.99 seconds = 4283.31 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 4252 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1416.93 MB/sec > mfsmaster ~ # > > > Samsung

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > >> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. >> Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go >> from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O > I've been wondering if older fairly generic mot

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years old) fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread antlists
On 02/04/2020 13:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: Same here, the colour cartridges have been saying they're "critically low" for the past couple of months. As they don't expire, I did order a new set when they got low. Those are still sealed in storage. Yup. I ordered a set when they hit critically low.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:49:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: >> antlists wrote: >>> On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: I still haven't bought it yet. I ordered some toner cartridges a while back for my printer. The site said that the ones I ordered fits my printer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 3:31:48 AM CEST Adam Carter wrote: > > A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: > > 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in 3.00 > > seconds = 531.46 MB/sec > > 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in 3.00 > > seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:49:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: > antlists wrote: > > On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: > >> I still haven't bought it yet. I ordered some toner cartridges a while > >> back for my printer. The site said that the ones I ordered fits my > >> printer. Well, it appears they f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:13:38 AM CEST antlists wrote: > On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: > > BTW, next time I'll find a printer that allows refilling and such too. > > I don't like that chip thing. It counts against my page count on color > > even if I print a black and white page. Still,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Adam Carter
> > 3900X@2133 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 11904 2858 > 3900X@3200 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 15213 3032 > > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. Do > you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go from > BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/4/20 10:05 am, Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in  3.00 seconds = 531.46 MB/sec 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in  3.00 seconds = 510.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: > > A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: > 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in  > 3.00 seconds = 531.46 MB/sec > 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in  > 3.00 seconds = 510.60 MB/sec > 120 GB Sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: > 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in 3.00 > seconds = 531.46 MB/sec > 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in 3.00 > seconds = 510.60 MB/sec > 120 GB Sandisk from 2017: Timing buffered disk reads

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Dale
antlists wrote: > On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: >> I still haven't bought it yet.  I ordered some toner cartridges a while >> back for my printer.  The site said that the ones I ordered fits my >> printer.  Well, it appears they found out that was a error because they >> removed that page and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread antlists
On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: I still haven't bought it yet.  I ordered some toner cartridges a while back for my printer.  The site said that the ones I ordered fits my printer.  Well, it appears they found out that was a error because they removed that page and relisted it but did not includ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:25:08 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I’ve been using it for 5 years for a dual-boot system (2×64 G for Windows > and Gentoo). By the end of last year it became slower and slower when > writing. Especially eix-update became slw. My main suspicion is that it > was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:22:36PM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Thanks for the additional info.  As I figured, they got most of the >> kinks worked out by now and we got some dependable SSDs to buy. >> >> I found a 240GB for a little over $42.00 USA.  Not bad at all.  For >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:22:36PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Thanks for the additional info.  As I figured, they got most of the > kinks worked out by now and we got some dependable SSDs to buy. > > I found a 240GB for a little over $42.00 USA.  Not bad at all.  For > those curious: Careful, you get w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-19 Thread Dale
David Haller wrote: > Hello, an addendum without digging up the details ... > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, David Haller wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >>> years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, an addendum without digging up the details ... On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, David Haller wrote: >On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >>I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >>years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers >>of flash chips

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-17, David Haller wrote: > And they produce and use their own controllers, so they additionally > know the ins and outs of those, i.e. they can easily optimize the > whole SSD from Flash-Chip over controller up to the firmware... Yep, that was definitely the gist of my (wishful) thinki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers >of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice >quality chips in their own drives..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:33 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few > years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers > of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice > quality chips in their o

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice quality chips in their own drives... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-03-17, Andrea Conti wrote: > >> "NAND flash" (as opposed to "NOR flash") refers to the way memory cells >> are organized and connected. See for example >> https://www.embedded.com/flash-101-nand-flash-vs-nor-flash/ >> >> AFAIK all SSDs use some variant of NAND flas

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-17, Andrea Conti wrote: > "NAND flash" (as opposed to "NOR flash") refers to the way memory cells > are organized and connected. See for example > https://www.embedded.com/flash-101-nand-flash-vs-nor-flash/ > > AFAIK all SSDs use some variant of NAND flash. Correct. NOR flash densi