Re: Linux 6.13.7

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:53:42 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:26:28 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
 
 

Hm.. ? I have almost identical machines, one with SSD and the other
with HD, same RAM (12 gigs). The one with SSD is noticeably faster than
the other.
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Only for file loading/saving.  On my machines the Iron browser, which is
based on the severely bloated Chrome, takes almost 10 seconds to load
and start.  With SSD this would be a lot faster.
 
But for program execution and computation overall, SSDs have no effect.
 
As I stated many times before, I do not use SSDs because the available
consumer technology is garbage.  Consumer SSDs degrade very rapidly and
require technical "tricks" to give an illusion of durability.
 
Ironically, to keep a record of failed and useless storage bits,
consumer SSDs will incorporate a very small amount of high-grade and
essentially permanent memory cells.  Only when the entire SSD is
composed of such permanent memory will I make the switch.

You know, if you don't trust NVMe, you _could_ just make sure
you have good backups, and even use RAID.

I have a confession to make:  I have my own "spinning rust" drives.
They are 7200RPM SATA III drives in my NAS in a RAID5 configuration.
I put backups there, as well as on a 4TB USB3 NVMe enclosure.  The
latter I use for timeshift, as well as serving it via Samba as a
time machine device for our Mac.  That all eventually ends up
on the NAS, connected to my w/s with 10Gbit Ethernet.

But when I fire up my space simulator, that runs off an NVMe drive,
as well as all the assets it uses, including the
Vulkan (pre-compiled) shaders.  This is very fast.  As I've said
before, the persistent writes for that system are "in the cloud",
where I imagine the storage environment is much different.

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