On November 14, 2018 2:21:40 PM HST, David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote: We have Samsung EVO SSDs (500gb) in our laptops. Very highly rated and excellent performers. Well worth the sales price we got them at a couple of years ago. -- David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail.

The Yahoo interface really messed up my last post.  Let me try again. Yes, the Inland does have bad reviews. I see that Samsung makes _two_ different 1TB SSD drives, with quite a bit of price difference between them: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Inch-Internal-MZ-76E1T0B-AM/dp/B078DPCY3T/re… Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM) $148 https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E1T0B-AM/dp/B00OBRFFA… Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E1T0B/AM) $335 though in reading the specs as they are displayed on Amazon, I am not sure what you have getting for the extra money for the MZ-75E1T0B. Anyone know? And that $335 is quite a bit price

On 15/11/18 1:12 pm, David W. Jones wrote: I have the same SSD, it works well. Bought for ~$AU220 several years ago and has been 100% reliable. Whatever the reason, it's not worth that much money. IIRC they are both similar in speed but the 860 has a longer life expectancy. This site shows the 860 EVO is 1% faster - https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-1TB-vs-Samsung-860-Ev… That's cheaper than the listed used ones. Absolute bargain if it's legit. I have had HDDs fail to write fast enough when recording over 30 tracks simultaneously. Never an issue with SSD. Cheers Roger

Hi, as internal drives I'm using SSDs only, for backups I'm using external HDDs. I'm using 3 Toshiba OCZ SSDs, probably those are the cheapest and slowest, but "slowest" still means super fast. Proprietary software for Toshiba OCZ is available, e.g. by the Arch user repository. The software I'm using to update firmware and to get better information, than provided by smatrctl: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocz-ssd-utility/ Software that is available, but that isn't used by me: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oczclout/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocztoolbox/ Formatted Capacity Power-On Hours Count Host Writes Lifetime remaining OCZ TR200 240GB 25.07.2018 42,00840 € x 1,19 = 49,99 € 223,57 GiB 2256 83049 92% OCZ TL100 240GB 27.07.2017 72,68908 € x 1,19 = 86,50 € 223,57 GiB 8909 73515 86% OCZ TL100 240GB 03.02.2017 65,50420 € x 1,19 = 77,95 € 223,57 GiB 11789 278459 65% I'm using periodic TRIM once a week. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ systemctl status fstrim.timer | tail -1 Nov 11 19:22:04 archlinux systemd[1]: Started Discard unused blocks once a week. There are no issues when using ext4 and recent Linux installs, such as e.g. Arch Linux or Ubuntu 16.04. Running Windows 7 in a virtual machine using qcow on ext4 works fine, too. I experienced hiccups with unsupported antique Linux installs. All you need to do is replacing a HDD by a SSD, power and SATA plugs are the same. Assumed your SSD does support TRIM, you should enable periodic TRIM. $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep -i trim\ support * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks) Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-pussytoes,-cornflower}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.19.arch1-1 4.19.1_rt3-0 4.19_rt1-0 4.18.16_rt9-1 4.18.16_rt8-1

Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> writes: And your SSD does not have an internal cache? Are you sure about that? Real-time audio work does not mind disks braking transfer speeds to Flash speeds, including the pauses for wear management, internal allocation, block erasure? I've been caught out flat a lot fantasizing about how I'd wanted to imagine computing to be. I would recommend some restraint distributing advice on that base. -- David Kastrup