Re: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/x8/ct1000x8ssd9

2022-08-04 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
An ssd on usb 2 still has an advantage in random seek operation and power consumption vs spinning rust. On top of being vibration and movement resilient in comparison. And it will also provide a touch of future-proofing. On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 5:33 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists

Re: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/x8/ct1000x8ssd9

2022-08-04 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
On Thu, 2022-08-04 at 05:43 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > > I'm thinking the bottleneck might be the USB.  Any thoughts PLUG? I'm almost positive that a USB2 interface will badly bottleneck an SSD. Might as well get a 5400rpm spinning rust. If you have even one USB3 on your com

Re: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/x8/ct1000x8ssd9

2022-08-04 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi Mike, More of a question. I have a bunch of old hardware which I think has USB 1 and USB 2 (if I am explaining that right). So I am wondering if this product will work on older hardware since it says "Interface - USB 3.2 Gen-2 (10Gb/s)". Mike, do you have compatible hardware? To PLUG: