On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 01:55:56PM -0400, Russell wrote: > I wouldn't recommend it commercially or for production, but personal privacy > may take a lot of different forms and methods. In a sense nonstandard can be > a good thing. > > There is a pcie adapter for M.2 so I imagine that some amount of removal and > insertion is built into the lifespan of the product, albeit without warranty > of purpose.
I would not be surprised if the M.2 connector has a rating of 50 insertions. It is obviously designed for internal use and not frequent changes. > In fact I just wanted to look at a measure of cache performance mitigations > for now. > > Onboard recovery OS or, deposit box storage of the card w/os & data, are just > a way of self justifing the cost of playing around with Linux and perhaps > extending the scope of my tinkering. > > Externals are possibly subject to theft, loss and impact damage from falling > off the desk. Stuff attached on the inside of the box, is just a bit more > inconvienent to access and that makes it a little more physically secure. > > Three second delay for bios and three more seconds to login prompt, pretty > much changed my mind about useage of this card. If only the BIOS could be faster. > I'll probably use it as my primary drive for the time being. There is an > apparent improvement in browsing the web. Seems like pages load faster than > on the SSD, but that may just be wishfull thinking. > > All in good fun. Well some browsers do like to maintain their state in databases in your home directory so a fast disk sure could help. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
