well, the beauty about the "add-in" cards is that you can use any PCI-e slot on just about any desktop that is newer than vintage 2005. YYou will end up with a rip-roaring fast machine. :)
-eric On May 22, 2018, at 2:43 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > Oohh! Oohh!! Something I can answer :-) > > 1 - yes and no. Yes, you can replace, but no, you (almost certainly) need to > get a PCIe card which converts PCIe on the motherboard to NVMe on the ssd. > We have one of those at work, not too expensive as I recall. > > 2 - You should be able to. Don't know if that's implemented or not. > > 3 - /dev/nvme0n1 as an example. So, for SATA, its /dev/sd<x> for nvme, you > get a /dev/nvme0 and then you get /dev/nvme0n1 for the actual drive, as I > remember. I don't remember what the partitions turn up as, but I THINK they > were /dev/nvme0n1p1 or something like that. A second NVMe drive would be > /dev/nvme0n2 I think. > > 4 - it should. Now, you MIGHT need some updated stuff, for example smartctl > may or may not work with NVMe on your distro. And you'll probably need to > download the nvme tool that gives you control sort of like hdparm. Using an > 'old' distribution might be a problem (for some value of 'old') > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Steve Litt > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: NVMe: was Building a Linux Computer? > > On Tue, 22 May 2018 13:57:29 -0700 > Brian Cluff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For me, I would get a system that can use a NVMe. They are about the >> same price as an SSD, but make and SSD look extremely slow. > > This is the first I've heard of NVMe. I just read > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express , and now have some questions: > > 1) Can I replace the spinning platter 2.5" hard disk in my 5 year old > laptop with an NVMe device? My research tells me an NVMe must plug > into a PCIe slot rather than a SATA slot. > > 2) Do you fstrim NVMe-hosted partitions the same way you do for SSD? > > 3) When you install an NVMe card in a PCIe slot, what device name shows > up? Is it sd-whatever, or something else? > > 4) If my desktop has a free PCIe slot, does that mean I can plug in an > NVIe drive and use it? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
