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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? The thing is, when I restore from hibernation I see apps swapping in (back to ram), recovering. For instance, Thunderbird was recovering at 600K/S, according to iotop. Total disk flow was under 2MB/S, according to gkrellm. I'm this instant using the laptop, which disk is capable of about 50 MB/S. Why does Leap recover so slowly from hibernation? It takes minutes till I can really use the machine. 13.1 did the same thing way much faster. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))