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Re: Linux 6.13.7

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:53:42 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
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> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:26:28 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hm.. ? I have almost identical machines, one with SSD and the other
>> with HD, same RAM (12 gigs). The one with SSD is noticeably faster than
>> the other.
>>
>>
> Only for file loading/saving.  On my machines the Iron browser, which is
> based on the severely bloated Chrome, takes almost 10 seconds to load
> and start.  With SSD this would be a lot faster.
> 
> But for program execution and computation overall, SSDs have no effect.
> 
> As I stated many times before, I do not use SSDs because the available
> consumer technology is garbage.  Consumer SSDs degrade very rapidly and
> require technical "tricks" to give an illusion of durability.
> 
> Ironically, to keep a record of failed and useless storage bits,
> consumer SSDs will incorporate a very small amount of high-grade and
> essentially permanent memory cells.  Only when the entire SSD is
> composed of such permanent memory will I make the switch.

You know, if you don't trust NVMe, you _could_ just make sure
you have good backups, and even use RAID.

I have a confession to make:  I have my own "spinning rust" drives.
They are 7200RPM SATA III drives in my NAS in a RAID5 configuration.
I put backups there, as well as on a 4TB USB3 NVMe enclosure.  The
latter I use for timeshift, as well as serving it via Samba as a
time machine device for our Mac.  That all eventually ends up
on the NAS, connected to my w/s with 10Gbit Ethernet.

But when I fire up my space simulator, that runs off an NVMe drive,
as well as all the assets it uses, including the
Vulkan (pre-compiled) shaders.  This is very fast.  As I've said
before, the persistent writes for that system are "in the cloud",
where I imagine the storage environment is much different.

-- 
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
   OS: Linux 6.14.0-rc6 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
   "Don't be so humble, you're not that great. -Golda Meir"

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Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-13 14:17 +0000
  Re: Linux 6.13.7 rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-03-13 16:56 +0000
    Re: Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-13 17:22 +0000
  Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-13 18:52 +0000
    Re: Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-14 05:45 +0000
      Re: Linux 6.13.7 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-14 07:15 +0000
        Re: Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-14 14:13 +0000
          Re: Linux 6.13.7 Andy Gerald <andy@yohoo.net> - 2025-03-16 13:27 -0400
      Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-03-14 10:27 +0000
        Re: Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-14 15:46 +0000
          Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-03-14 16:14 +0000
            Re: Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 02:01 +0000
        Re: Linux 6.13.7 Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-03-14 20:01 +0000
          Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-14 20:26 +0000
            Re: Linux 6.13.7 Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-03-14 20:35 +0000
        Re: Linux 6.13.7 Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-03-14 16:26 -0500
          Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-15 10:53 +0000
            Re: Linux 6.13.7 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 11:36 +0000
            Re: Linux 6.13.7 -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-03-15 13:01 -0400
              Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-03-15 17:29 +0000
          Re: Linux 6.13.7 The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-03-15 11:30 -0700
            Re: Linux 6.13.7 Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-03-15 18:14 -0400
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              Re: Linux 6.13.7 Scott Doty <s.doty@ewing.con> - 2025-03-16 03:50 -0400
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      Re: Linux 6.13.7 Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-14 20:29 +0000
        Re: Linux 6.13.7 Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-03-14 20:38 +0000

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