On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:02:34 -0700 Ben Koenig <techkoe...@gmail.com> dijo:
>You are opening a can of worms looking at NVMe drives for this use >case. NVMe and PCIe storage in general is still in a state of flux and >subject to change. Hotplug support hasn't even been standardized yet >so there are things that just don't exist yet for end users. There's >also a mess of compliance issues with different drives. Many SSD's >don't behave as you expect from the advertising material. You make a good point about NVMe drives, but it's what I need. I should add that my laptop has a 1TB NVMe drive for / and /home, and I recently installed another NVMe drive. My desktop also has only NVMe drives. And I've never had a problem with any of them. Yes, the world of NVMe is a tricky one because of all the varying standards, but I'm in no rush and I will always buy from someone where I can return the product if it doesn't work. I don't know how long it will take, but spinning disks are eventually going to go away. I don't mind occasionally being on the cutting edge. I bought my vehicle brand new 24 years ago and it still runs the same as it did then. I don't feel a need to buy a new one because it wouldn't get me where I'm going any faster or more comfortably. (Although I do keep eyeing electrics and self-driving cars.) But my computers are a different matter. Just five years ago I had a few files of over 1GB size, and today I have probably close to a hundred that are over 20GB. Moving those things on and off of spinning disks takes a lot of time. >Thunderbolt is also an issue in and of itself. Generally speaking, >Thunderbolt is considered a dead protocol and will probably end up in >the same place as firewire and eSATA. I recommend against it. Thunderbolt 3 is the best speed I can get at the moment, and it will not be surpassed easily for some time to come. Yeah, there's 10G ethernet, but I don't want to re-wire my house, and Thunderbolt 3 is still faster. My computer came with a Thunderbolt 3 port that I have connected to a dock that has ports for ethernet, multiple video, and even various USB3 ports. In three to five years I'll probably be ready to move on to something else, so I just need Thunderbolt to work for that long. By then I'll probably be buying a new computer with who knows what kind of connections. You're welcome to dislike Thunderbolt 3 if you like, but is hard to beat for DAS. >You probably just need a 2 or 4 bay SATA enclosure that implements >RAID. Either Direct Attached (DAS) or Network Attached (NAS) depending >on how you intend to use it. If you want I could make a recommendation >but full disclosure - I work for one of the companies that sells this >type of gear so I'm going to be biased ;-) I have a SATA3 RAID0 DAS in a Mediasonic enclosure now, and it's too slow. Why should I replace it with something that's just as slow? Oh wait ... slow stuff is cheap. Well, I can afford it. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug