On Thursday 14 October 2021 06:29:18 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Sounds like you need an M.2 NVME PCIe x4 Ultra SSD. Those run around 3 > gigabytes per second. No M.2 PCIe slot on your motherboard? There are > PCIe to M.2 adapters. Of course to get best performance it needs an x4 > slot that's PCIe 3.0 or newer. There are PCIe x1 to PCIe NVME adapters > but that will reduce the transfer speed, so will plugging it into PCIe > 1.0 or 2.0. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#History_and_revisions > On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 07:24:31 AM MDT, Gene Heskett > <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: Big projects with lots of union()'s and > difference()'s eat memory for all three meals, putting it deep into 50 > gigs of swap and of course that slows it down even if the swap is on > its SSD at 900 megs a second
All the dells are off-lease, no windows machines, which, while they are good solid machines, have only 2 sata ports, one normally for the cd reader and one for the hard drive. The port hardware for m2 does not exist. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
