Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: > I assumed the two terms were interchangeable. Is that not so? SATA: based on the IDE legacy over a serial bus, caps out at about 530mb/sec, NVME: connects directly to a PCIe 4x bus, no overhead of any kind, caps out at ~2gb/sec... (legacy HDD:  50mb/sec ideal sequential

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:14:59PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Provided the M.2 is using NVME instead of SATA > > I assumed the two terms were interchangeable. Is that not so? M.2 is the physical connector. SATA and NMVE are logical protocols (well, there are also SATA-specific connectors

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:12:44 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:10:45 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > > > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > > > anyway. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:12:02 -0500, Michael wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:54:29 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > > > The other discovery was that my /home drive is a 3.0 tb Toshiba unit > > from 2014... man time flies!!! =P This means that the thing should > > probably be replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:54:29 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > The other discovery was that my /home drive is a 3.0 tb Toshiba unit > from 2014... man time flies!!! =P This means that the thing should > probably be replaced due to being old as hell... I've got disks spinning around for more

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:10:45 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > > anyway. > > Sorry, but that just isn't true. The difference is dramatic. I speak from >

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > anyway. Sorry, but that just isn't true. The difference is dramatic. I speak from experience. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Alan Grimes
I overhauled my computer today, found two things... My waterblock is clogged again, down to a trickle of flow, not bad enough to be dangerous at idle but I've had to order some fresh O-rings from Germany and will need to rebuild the damn thing again. Some of the nickel plating is scraped off

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread antlists
On 18/02/2021 08:20, Hund wrote: Any thoughts about running a drive this old, and what I should be looking at as a replacement? No matter how old or new your disk is, keep your backups current and in working shape. If it's old, I would just keep an extra eye on the S.M.A.R.T. status and

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Hund
>My waterblock is clogged again, down to a trickle of flow, not bad >enough to be dangerous at idle but I've had to order some fresh O-rings >from Germany and will need to rebuild the damn thing again. Unless you're a hardcore overclocker, there's really no reason to bother with it, especially