Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan Grimes <alonzotg@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:17:28
Message-Id: 7856e672-07aa-efc6-d28d-d61093179581@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance. by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > I assumed the two terms were interchangeable. Is that not so?
3
4 SATA: based on the IDE legacy over a serial bus, caps out at about
5 530mb/sec,
6 NVME: connects directly to a PCIe 4x bus, no overhead of any kind, caps
7 out at ~2gb/sec...
8
9 (legacy HDD:  50mb/sec ideal sequential read; ~1mb/sec at best under
10 windows 10 trying to round-robin between 10 different read requests
11 forcing the head to seek between that many sites on the disk, grabbing a
12 few kb each time..)
13
14 --
15 The vaccine is a LIE.
16 #EggCrisis
17 White is the new Kulak.
18 Powers are not rights.