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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10/8/2024 4:05 PM, pinnerite wrote:   
   > I have a Gigabyte miniATX motherboard with 4 SATA HDD sockets.   
   > I wondered if I could replace the hard drive with an M.2 SSD   
   > provided I could find some kind of adapter.   
   >   
   > There appear to be loads of devices advertised but I cannot be sure   
   > that they would fulfill my need.   
   >   
   > Has anyone tried this?   
   >   
   > TIA   
   >   
   > Alan   
      
   Presumably there is a reason for this adventure ?   
      
   Was the hard drive being naughty ?   
      
   Just a plain old SATAIII SSD 2.5" drive (like you might   
   use in a laptop), can run at a SATA III rate. Because you   
   didn't name the motherboard model number, we can't guess   
   what controller is in there. Nor for that matter, how   
   spiffy your PCIe slots are. Your motherboard could be a   
   9.6" x 9.6" microATX (full size ATX is 12" high).   
      
   $ inxi -F   
   Machine:   
     Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG B550 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C56) v: 1.0   
       v: 1.I0  date: 07/13/2024   
   CPU:   
     Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G  bits: 64  type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4   
   MiB   
   Drives:   
     ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 4TB size: 3.64 TiB   <===   
   boot drive   
      
   When it comes to measuring them, computers are particularly clever.   
   For example, this machine has invariant RDTSC and yet speed measurement   
   of disks does not agree when performed by two different OSes.   
   This is captured on a Zen3 B550 system (Asmedia Southbridge).   
      
      [Picture]  Comparison of benchmarks of SATA SSDs on LM213 and Windows   
      
       https://i.postimg.cc/nrkVdbVn/munchkin-racing.gif   
      
   The only thing I have against NVMe, is the installation is a   
   bit fiddly, the screw is a nuisance. I own just one sample NVMe   
   and most of the time, it sits in the little cardboard box.   
      
   It would be nice, if they used good flash in SSDs, but that's never going   
   to happen. SLC, MLC, (TLC,QLC,PLC) the downward descent continues.   
   Bog roll for the win.   
      
   You can see in the bench picture, the drive at the bottom was   
   bought as an "experiment in cheapness". And the error corrector   
   can only manage about 285 MB/sec or so. The sectors aren't being   
   spared out, and while re-writing them might be fun, it might not   
   achieve the desired result. I wanted to see if the cheap drive   
   behaved like my bad USB flash sticks or not.   
      
   You have to decide whether this storage device is to be bootable, or not.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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