Re: [gentoo-user] SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
My mobo is just old enough to not support NVMe drives.  I checked on that a while back.  It'll be old school SDDs, well, the ones that mount hardware wise like HDDs anyway.  It's not like SDDs are really that old. We're talking about interface standards here, not form factors. SATA drives use

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Dale
Andrea Conti wrote: >> So, before I find a SDD to buy, what are some things I should look for >> it to have and what are things I should avoid? > > I think the single most important thing is buying stuff from a > reputable brand (there's quite a number of those by now). Look at > reviews. Top-tier

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
So, before I find a SDD to buy, what are some things I should look for it to have and what are things I should avoid? I think the single most important thing is buying stuff from a reputable brand (there's quite a number of those by now). Look at reviews. Top-tier performance probably isn't

[gentoo-user] SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Dale
Howdy, Tuxic's recent thread brought me back to looking at SDDs again.  I recently learned about HDDs having SMR instead of PMR and how that can be a negative in some situations.  I've since found out that one of my /home drives is a SMR.  I didn't know to look at that when I bought it.  So,