On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:02:06AM -0400, Russell wrote: > Yea, this is just a tinker-toy. I had figured to put a small backup OS on > this, remove its allocation from the chainloader and then leave it alone in > the box in case I need it, instead of using a live usb for troubleshooting > etc. > > It doesn't look like I can mask it's physical presence tho, except by > populating a pcie slot and co-opting it's assigned pci lanes, so no security > through obscurity. > > Instead I went with full Fedora w/gnome. I have 7gib on the drive after a > full workstation install so I may rethink stuff and use it as my primary. > Optane was meant to be a cache accelerator for booting Windows 10 on a > standard drive and thats about the sum of it. > > Although, with all the elbow room and thumbscrews in this box, you could use > it as a key drive for sneakernet backup to a safety deposit box pretty > handily. You'd just need the right finger screw for the 1_M.2 slot standoff > post, which is exposed. The other slot is buried under a heat sink.
Well as a toy, $90 is easier to justify than $170. Not sure how many insertions that M.2 slot is rated for. I don't think I would do anything that involves frequent swapping. An external thunderbolt connected NVMe drive would survive that much better. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
