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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On December 21, 2018 12:27:28 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>>> On December 20, 2018 11:45:29 AM UTC, Dale |
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>>> <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>> Next upgrade idea: |
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>>> - mainboard with NVME slot |
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>>> - NVME drive for your OS. |
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>>> Your CPU and memory will be the next bottleneck :) |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my |
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>>> brevity. |
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>> Yea. I looked into rebuilding from scratch, less the case of |
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>> course. I'm just not sure it would be worth the speed increase. |
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>> The biggest things I needed, more drive space and more memory. |
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>> The CPU was just on sale. Hard to beat $75.00 for a 8 core CPU |
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>> running at over 4GHz. Right now, it's plenty fast. I may |
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>> consider it after I do some other things tho. I plan to do a |
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>> emerge -e world before to long. I wanted to let the new CPU |
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>> compound sort of get set in. |
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>> I might add, the new video card is way overpowered for what I |
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>> do. LOL Most of the time, it maxes out at about 10% of its |
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>> power and less than 10% for memory usage. I really can't tell |
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>> much difference from my old 220 to this new 650 series. The |
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>> biggest difference, the 650 runs much cooler. I just hope it |
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>> doesn't get bored and go to sleep. ;-) Oh, when I run glxgears |
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>> at full screen, it still only goes to about 60%. It warms up a |
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>> little but not a whole lot. |
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>> Now to go see what a NVME drive is. I don't recall ever hearing |
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>> of those. Sounds interesting. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> OMG. Those things are fast. Those things make a sata drive look |
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> like a snail or something and let's not mention the old IDE |
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> drives. Thing is, I've got a 160GB drive for the OS itself right |
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> now. Even a 256GB one of those isn't to bad price wise. The OS |
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> is really all I'd need on that thing anyway. The sata drives are |
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> plenty fast enough for watching videos etc. I wonder, how much |
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> faster would emerges go on those things? One wouldn't even need |
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> portage's work directory on tmpfs with that. |
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> Wow!!! |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> Considering that they, like all SSDs have a limited write cycle, I |
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> only use mine for the compiled software. I still use a tmpfs for |
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> compiling. |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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Yea, good idea. Forgot about that. Question. I update usually once a |
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week here. With my Mom keeping me busy, sometimes I don't get to do |
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that. I mostly try to update a day or two after KDE sends a email that |
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there is a big release. Given that, would the wear and tear on one of |
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these drives be really small? In other words, one of these drives would |
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last a really long time, right? If I get one of these, I'd put |
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portage's work directory on tmpfs, /home on another set of drives. I |
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could even put /var somewhere else since logs change a lot, I guess. |
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Would that setup reduce wear to the point it would be negligible? |
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Anything else that would be best elsewhere? |
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I've read a little, mostly on this list, about them wearing out but I |
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haven't kept up with improvements. I figure they may have improved them |
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somehow as well. |
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That is a neat setup tho. I have a empty PCI slot that is a X8 I |
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think. I use the X16 for my video card but the X8 could be used for a |
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second video card or maybe one of these drives. Either way, those slots |
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are supposed to be very fast with data. Looking at the pics of them, it |
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seems some need the larger slots, like X8 or X16. I noticed some would |
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fit on the smaller slots, maybe a X4 or something. I'd think the X8 |
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drives would be faster than a X4 tho. |
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This is a neat idea. I'm finding it interesting. It may not be right |
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away but I'm giving this some deep thought here. The cost is not bad at |
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all. My current spinning rust OS drive has a lot of hours on it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |