* Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo
@ 2021-06-03 0:19 99% ` William Kenworthy
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From: William Kenworthy @ 2021-06-03 0:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 3/6/21 4:52 am, antlists wrote:
> On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it
>>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars),
>>> don't expect it to last long.
>>
>> I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2
>> duo that I shut down last autumn. Web surfing was getting painfully
>> slow, and really large spreadsheets were dying in 3 gigabytes of ram,
>> but otherwise it still worked. 256 G SSD is not enough for me now.
>> That takes us into 512 G SSD territory, which will be "adequate" for
>> now, but who knows about my future needs.
>>
> I've recovered (or tried to) drives for other people, but again I've
> been lucky in that I've never lost one of my own drives.
>
> ...
>
> I'm planning to buy one of those shingled horrors - a Seagate BaraCuda
> 12TB - for backups. Use btrfs or LVM, and rsync in-place copy. A good
> idea in any case, but probably an even better idea if your main
> storage is SSD.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
Bounght a 4Tb usb3 backup drive that contains an SMR baracuda - took
quite a few days to transfer the 2Tb from its predecessor. Backup
(Borgbackup on btrfs) is quite fast with small changes between backup
sets - miserably slow otherwise. I am still in two minds if SMR is
usable (i.e., will finish before the next run is due!) in my scenario.
BillK
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