[GTALUG] Build critique request and the story behind it.

[Russell]

On November 19, 2017 1:18:00 PM EST, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>| From: Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
>I seem to be good at giving too-late advice.

Good advice never comes too-late. It is after all good advice and if not me, I'm pretty sure someone else could use it sometime in the future.

I'm pretty good at talking in generalized marketing hyperbole myself. My LAN box is actually this Cooler Master case.

https://m.newegg.ca/products/N82E16811119265

The 4U rack I have in storage has, at last check, a perfectly service able Asus M3A78-EM mb. I'm going to use that for any data recovery I wind up having to try to do. 

I have one outlet left on the UPS so I'm probably going to then run that unit headless and store HD video from my phone which I've down-sampled. There's a hawk flying around my neighbourhood.

As of yet I haven't been able to catch him in flight chasing crows. So I'll have to start recording as soon as I see him, but I can't even email short videos without down-sampling them. Also this way I'll extend the use of my current IDE drives.

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>The coming thing in SSDs is NVMe.
>  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express>
>
>These live directly on the PCI bus and thus get rid of the SATA
>bottleneck.  But most current SSDs aren't significantly bottlenecked
>by SATA.
>
>You need OS support (in Linux for 5 years but improved more recently)
>and hardware support (prehaps only firmware for booting from NVMe).  I
>bet that your motherboard, chipset, and CPU chip support NVMe.

I'll check into that for future reference. It seems, given your previous comment on SSD's being prone to complete failure, I should put the kybosh on my plan to leave some unallocated space on that drive as LVM headroom for /boot. 

>
>NVMe SSDs cost more than SSDs with SATA, mSATA, and m.2 connectors.
>
>I don't think that any of my machines supports NVMe.
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Russell