On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2017-09-18 18:28, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Is this a desktop? If so, for ~$20 you can buy a NVMe SSD controller card. It fits into a PCIe slot. (Assuming you have an empty slot).
I have free slots, yes, but I don't remember the kind.
NVMe SSDs scream. Mine benchmarks above 1.5 GB/sec. (That's B for Bytes, not b for bits). I have openSUSE 42.2 running on it. But I have plenty of RAM, so I don't think the PC ever swaps.
Not as fast as RAM, but 10x the speed of rotating drives even if you ignore seek times.
I have 2 of the NVMe SSDs. One was way expensive (2 TB).
But the Samsung PM951 128GB is under $100.
Interesting, very interesting. Does one need both a controller card and the SSD?
Yes, you have to have both a NVMe SSD controller and a NVMe SSD.
The last 2 MBs I bought had integrated NVMe SSD controllers, so for them I can just buy the SSD and plug it in directly to the MB. I can also boot off of the NVMe SSD. I don't think you can boot off the card based controllers.
Here's a picture so you know what you're looking for:
I don't know the above vendor, but there should be various sellers of a controller card.
I forgot to say that you can get both NVMe and AHCI SSDs in the M.2 form factor. You want to get the NVMe if possible. As far as I can tell the AHCI version were a short lived stepping stone to the full NVMe version. Others might correct me on the details, but regardless go with NVMe. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org