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   From: rob@despammer.com   
      
   On 09/10/2024 13:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > On 09/10/2024 10:52, Paul wrote:   
   >> 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   
   > Ive used SATA style SSDs and they are a lot faster than spinning rust.   
   >   
   > Just how fast does a disk need to be?   
   >   
   that's what I use, 1 for the boot disk and the other for data etc   
      
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