From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD0851382C5 for ; Fri, 28 May 2021 16:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 125CAE0A94; Fri, 28 May 2021 16:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmta11.teksavvy.com (pmta11.teksavvy.com [76.10.157.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B226FE0A76 for ; Fri, 28 May 2021 16:17:58 +0000 (UTC) IronPort-SDR: AhooKsNqKGxFQzy4zEsojG5Sj90tpLqLZcMmolbH7JSbnadFQVkube4Yd+m63oZyJgIYO2Caqb QhramnnlhyTQ== IronPort-HdrOrdr: =?us-ascii?q?A9a23=3AwiIzv60cReVfDrAPXa+b8wqjBIIkLtp133?= =?us-ascii?q?Aq2lEZdPU1SKClfqWV98jzuiWatN98Yh8dcLK7Scu9qALnlKKdiLN5Vd3OYO?= =?us-ascii?q?DbgguVxepZnO7fKlPbak7DH8dmpMNdWpk7JNrsDUVryebWiTPIaurIGeP3l5?= =?us-ascii?q?xAU92uqUtQcQ=3D=3D?= X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2F4HAD5FrFg/wvUbkFaHgEBCxIMQAm?= =?us-ascii?q?BUIN2bIh8hFCGS4IiOAGbAoF7CwEBAQEBAQEBAUcBAgQBAYRKBAICggAmOgQ?= =?us-ascii?q?NAgQBAQESAQEBBQEBAQEBBgQCAoEAhXWGTgEEATocFBQLCzQSEEcZhVghqDS?= =?us-ascii?q?BNIEBhGSFaYE6jWhDQIEJRIQILz6FEYUuBIZGkRyqbgqDGYEnB5xllHyQXLw?= =?us-ascii?q?ADoFtfQiDJFAZDlaOAI4zKC84AgYKAQEDCVcBiwgBAQ?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2F4HAD5FrFg/wvUbkFaHgEBCxIMQAmBUIN2bIh8hFCGS?= =?us-ascii?q?4IiOAGbAoF7CwEBAQEBAQEBAUcBAgQBAYRKBAICggAmOgQNAgQBAQESAQEBB?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBBgQCAoEAhXWGTgEEATocFBQLCzQSEEcZhVghqDSBNIEBhGSFaYE6j?= =?us-ascii?q?WhDQIEJRIQILz6FEYUuBIZGkRyqbgqDGYEnB5xllHyQXLwADoFtfQiDJFAZD?= =?us-ascii?q?laOAI4zKC84AgYKAQEDCVcBiwgBAQ?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,229,1616472000"; d="scan'208";a="165029430" Received: from 65-110-212-11.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO waltdnes.org) ([65.110.212.11]) by smtp11.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 28 May 2021 12:17:57 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 28 May 2021 12:17:59 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 12:17:59 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo Message-ID: References: <4dbce3f3-0925-1acc-75b2-d38943dc1ba0@sys-concept.com> <27fdf08c-96b2-feb7-3365-e7368811e1f5@sys-concept.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27fdf08c-96b2-feb7-3365-e7368811e1f5@sys-concept.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5fcf4664-b0cb-4bc4-8309-2af8d6b054e0 X-Archives-Hash: 9a2f21d0169b41925a6aa5c5f74898bd > 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. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications