Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-11 Thread Terry Barnaby
Note with NVME drives, well any NAND FLASH, you have to know what technology is in use when writing data to the drive. In particular we have noticed that some of the latest, large storage devices, use TLC (three bits per cell) based technology. Writing to TLC cells is relatively slow. So most

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 19:47 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > > Oops. It actually has "compress=zstd:1" in the fstab line. > > > > Apologies. That completely invalidates the numbers. > > > > Not completely invalid, they still say something about a real-world > use > case, (I work with optical

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-10 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 18:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 22:40 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 11:13 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 3/10/22 02:47, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:25 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 22:40 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 11:13 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 3/10/22 02:47, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:25 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > On 3/9/22 02:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > Thanks

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 11:13 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/10/22 02:47, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:25 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 3/9/22 02:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Thanks for the detailed info. My current SSD is a Samsung 860 > > > > EVO > > > >

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/10/22 02:47, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:25 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/9/22 02:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Thanks for the detailed info. My current SSD is a Samsung 860 EVO (2TB) so for comparison I did this: $ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=23 of=Big

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:25 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/9/22 02:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Thanks for the detailed info. My current SSD is a Samsung 860 EVO > > (2TB) > > so for comparison I did this: > > > > $ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=23 of=Big > > 23+0 records in > > 23+0

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/9/22 02:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Thanks for the detailed info. My current SSD is a Samsung 860 EVO (2TB) so for comparison I did this: $ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=23 of=Big 23+0 records in 23+0 records out 24696061952 bytes (25 GB, 23 GiB) copied, 14.9873 s, 1.6 GB/s real

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 22:53 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > > On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > > Has a 240G SSD for Fedora, and 2 500G nvme ssd's for storage > > > (both in > > > adapters as the MB has no M.2 slots). > > > > Somewhat OT, but

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 03:06 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 12:00:47PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > > Has a 240G SSD for Fedora, and 2 500G nvme ssd's for storage > > > (both in > > > adapters as the MB has no

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 12:00:47PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: Has a 240G SSD for Fedora, and 2 500G nvme ssd's for storage (both in adapters as the MB has no M.2 slots). Somewhat OT, but do you notice a difference between the SSD

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: Patrick O'Callaghan On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: Has a 240G SSD for Fedora, and 2 500G nvme ssd's for storage (both in adapters as the MB has no M.2 slots). Somewhat OT, but do you notice a difference between the SSD and the NVMe+adapter combos? I don't have

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-08 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 02:47, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi. > I am using Fedora 35 and everything is working fine in general. > > But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My > CPU is 4th generation intel and I am using the nvidia-470 drivers for my > video card.

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-08 Thread Barry Scott
> On 8 Mar 2022, at 16:35, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Tue Mar08'22 04:20:48PM, Barry Scott wrote: >> From: Barry Scott >> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 16:20:48 + >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora user

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-08 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue Mar08'22 04:20:48PM, Barry Scott wrote: > From: Barry Scott > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 16:20:48 + > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: Time to update the hardware? > > > > > On 7 Mar 2022,

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-08 Thread Barry Scott
> On 7 Mar 2022, at 06:47, Javier Perez wrote: > > Hi. > I am using Fedora 35 and everything is working fine in general. > > But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My > CPU is 4th generation intel and I am using the nvidia-470 drivers for my > video card.

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Has a 240G SSD for Fedora, and 2 500G nvme ssd's for storage (both in > adapters as the MB has no M.2 slots). Somewhat OT, but do you notice a difference between the SSD and the NVMe+adapter combos? I don't have M.2 slots either and

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-08 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > To get anything faster I would need to step up to a faster CPU and MB > and RAM... for not a lot of change. For the average user, who just emails, browses the web, and does a bit of typing, they could double their CPU speed (and other

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-07 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 10:21:05AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 01:47 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. I am using Fedora 35 and everything  is working fine in general. But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My CPU is 4th generation

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 10:21:05AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 01:47 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. I am using Fedora 35 and everything  is working fine in general. But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My CPU is 4th generation

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-07 Thread Kenneth Marcy
On 3/6/22 22:47, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. I am using Fedora 35 and everything  is working fine in general. But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My CPU is 4th generation intel and I am using the nvidia-470 drivers for my video card. Motherboard uses the H87

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon Mar07'22 12:03:47AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > From: Samuel Sieb > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 00:03:47 -0800 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: Time to update the hardware? > > On 3/6/22 22:47, Javier Perez wrote: &

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 01:47 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi. > I am using Fedora 35 and everything  is working fine in general. > > But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from > 2013. My > CPU is 4th generation intel and I am using the nvidia-470 drivers for > my > video

Re: Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/6/22 22:47, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. I am using Fedora 35 and everything  is working fine in general. But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My CPU is 4th generation intel and I am using the nvidia-470 drivers for my video card. Motherboard uses the H87

Time to update the hardware?

2022-03-06 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. I am using Fedora 35 and everything is working fine in general. But I was checking out my hardware and I realized that It is from 2013. My CPU is 4th generation intel and I am using the nvidia-470 drivers for my video card. Motherboard uses the H87 chipset. System is being used for regular