[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 22:02:09 -0400
"Jon \"maddog\" Hall via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Likewise they have dumped the slower SATA controllers (600 MBytes per
> second) for M.2 NVMe solid state memories that typically attach to the
> motherboard's PCIe bus and have speeds of 7,000 MBytes per second or
> even faster if attached to PCIe 5.0 and doing the equivalent of RAID
> with them. I have had reports of 20000 MBytes per second reading.
> They are very thin and I have seen sizes up to 4TB and very price
> competitive with an external HDD of the same capacity.

I'm very happy for this conversation because now that NVMe's have
gotten cheaper, on my next build I'll put my swap partition on the
NVMe. That should speed things up.

SteveT

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