J. Roeleveld wrote: > On December 21, 2018 12:27:28 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On December 20, 2018 11:45:29 AM UTC, Dale >>> <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Next upgrade idea: >>> - mainboard with NVME slot >>> - NVME drive for your OS. >>> >>> Your CPU and memory will be the next bottleneck :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my >>> brevity. >> >> >> Yea. I looked into rebuilding from scratch, less the case of >> course. I'm just not sure it would be worth the speed increase. >> The biggest things I needed, more drive space and more memory. >> The CPU was just on sale. Hard to beat $75.00 for a 8 core CPU >> running at over 4GHz. Right now, it's plenty fast. I may >> consider it after I do some other things tho. I plan to do a >> emerge -e world before to long. I wanted to let the new CPU >> compound sort of get set in. >> >> I might add, the new video card is way overpowered for what I >> do. LOL Most of the time, it maxes out at about 10% of its >> power and less than 10% for memory usage. I really can't tell >> much difference from my old 220 to this new 650 series. The >> biggest difference, the 650 runs much cooler. I just hope it >> doesn't get bored and go to sleep. ;-) Oh, when I run glxgears >> at full screen, it still only goes to about 60%. It warms up a >> little but not a whole lot. >> >> Now to go see what a NVME drive is. I don't recall ever hearing >> of those. Sounds interesting. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > > OMG. Those things are fast. Those things make a sata drive look > like a snail or something and let's not mention the old IDE > drives. Thing is, I've got a 160GB drive for the OS itself right > now. Even a 256GB one of those isn't to bad price wise. The OS > is really all I'd need on that thing anyway. The sata drives are > plenty fast enough for watching videos etc. I wonder, how much > faster would emerges go on those things? One wouldn't even need > portage's work directory on tmpfs with that. > > Wow!!! > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > > Considering that they, like all SSDs have a limited write cycle, I > only use mine for the compiled software. I still use a tmpfs for > compiling. > > -- > Joost > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Yea, good idea. Forgot about that. Question. I update usually once a week here. With my Mom keeping me busy, sometimes I don't get to do that. I mostly try to update a day or two after KDE sends a email that there is a big release. Given that, would the wear and tear on one of these drives be really small? In other words, one of these drives would last a really long time, right? If I get one of these, I'd put portage's work directory on tmpfs, /home on another set of drives. I could even put /var somewhere else since logs change a lot, I guess. Would that setup reduce wear to the point it would be negligible? Anything else that would be best elsewhere? I've read a little, mostly on this list, about them wearing out but I haven't kept up with improvements. I figure they may have improved them somehow as well. That is a neat setup tho. I have a empty PCI slot that is a X8 I think. I use the X16 for my video card but the X8 could be used for a second video card or maybe one of these drives. Either way, those slots are supposed to be very fast with data. Looking at the pics of them, it seems some need the larger slots, like X8 or X16. I noticed some would fit on the smaller slots, maybe a X4 or something. I'd think the X8 drives would be faster than a X4 tho. This is a neat idea. I'm finding it interesting. It may not be right away but I'm giving this some deep thought here. The cost is not bad at all. My current spinning rust OS drive has a lot of hours on it. Dale :-) :-)
