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On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to |
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> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I |
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> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October. |
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> Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12 gigs ram, so I'm looking for an XPS |
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> model in order to get more ram as the bloating of linux continues. All |
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> current XPS models seem to have 256G or 512G M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State |
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> drives in the base configuration. Questions... |
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> * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)? |
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> * how long do they hold up (wear and tear)? |
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> * can I simply disable them if I run into problems? |
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> If someone can suggest an alternate supplier to Dell, that ships to |
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> greater Toronto, at similar prices, I'd be willing to take a look at |
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> them. |
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I have M.2 in four machines (recently assembled). |
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2 - Run on Gentoo (one 1TB and one 2TB) |
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2 - Run on Windows 10 (had no choice :-/) |
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Corsair Force MP600 M.2 2280 1TB and 2TB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4 NVMe |
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All boxes are running very well, and stable, no issue with drivers. You just need to enable some options in the kernel (I think, very simple). |
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Make sure your Motherboard and CPU is compatible with "PCI-Express Gen 4.0" or it makes not sense buying expensive NVME just to run Gen. 3 |
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