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| From: | Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo | ||
| Date: | Fri, 28 May 2021 02:18:00 | ||
| Message-Id: | s8pjs9$aih$2@ciao.gmane.io | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo by Walter Dnes |
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| 1 | On 2021-05-27, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > All current XPS models seem to have 256G or 512G M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid |
| 4 | > State drives in the base configuration. Questions... |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)? |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Yes. The kernel has supported NVMe drives for ages (since kernel 3.3): |
| 9 | |
| 10 | https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVMe |
| 11 | https://www.networkworld.com/article/3397006/nvme-on-linux.html |
| 12 | https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/NVMe |
| 13 | |
| 14 | I run Gentoo on a Thinkpad T580 with an NVMe drive, and it has always |
| 15 | worked flawlessly. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | > * how long do they hold up (wear and tear)? |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Don't know. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | > * can I simply disable them if I run into problems? |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Sure: you can disable support in the kernel if you want to, but I |
| 24 | can't think why you would. They "just work." |
| 25 | |
| 26 | -- |
| 27 | Grant |