On 11/10/20 5:41 AM, Zrubi wrote:
On 11/8/20 4:38 PM, Stumpy wrote:
I was listening to the ubuntu podcast and one of the guys there
mentioned he just setup his new computer with a PCIE gen4 m.2 card which
enabled him to run 4 m.2 drives at the same time, he also squeezed more
performance out of it by doing raid 0 across the 4 drives.
Theoretically, and in some test cases, maybe...
Asides from the risk of loosing data, does/would #1 Qubes support pcie
gen4? #2 Is is possible to (if the hardware doesnt support it for some
strange reason) to do raid0 across 4 drives on a pcie m.2 card?
Not as strange as you thing... as usually those RAID features are
meaning windonws only software raid.
So in practice, there is no (or at least very rare) hardware RAID on a
desktop board.
on Qubes (or in Linux in general) you can safely relay on software raid
not the one your motherboard suggest, but what the Linux kernel (even
the fedora installer) provides you
I am not in a huge hurry to upgrade but when i do i am keen on getting a
storage option that will make my qubes setup fairly fast and i assume
that with a super fast drive setup it would be able to sping up appvms
faster?
In practice (like appvm startup times), you can't even tell if your
system runs from a SATA SSD or from an NVME m.2 SSD. Imagine the much
less theoretical speed difference you may get using a PCI gen 4 device....
Thanks for the response!
Regarding not being able to tell the difference, I have an older system
(Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz w 32gb mem) with a fairly
new/fast Samsung ssd I got this year but it still takes over 20 sec to
start up a firefox in a fed32 dvm, is that normal? Is it most likely
that the majority of the slowness is attributable to my ancient proc?
I just want to get a clear idea of where I should focus my spending,
that is on a CPU, faster drives, etc.
Thanks in advance!
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