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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Apparently it is QLC. Unless I misunderstand what I read about QLC, that's not ideal for the intended purpose (OS/app/game drive). On the other hand, it would be replacing a 4 year old M.2 drive which doesn't feature NVMe. Hrm. QLC is fine for that if you go into it knowing you simply cannot fill it up and expect to retain good performance. As long as you leave a good chunk of free space on it, it'll be pretty much fine. But, yeah, TLC drives are a bit better if you don't want to have to baby its capacity.
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DrDork posted:QLC is fine for that if you go into it knowing you simply cannot fill it up and expect to retain good performance. As long as you leave a good chunk of free space on it, it'll be pretty much fine. I should be able to handle that; my first Samsung SSD's performance went to poo poo if less than 20% free space was available, but I haven't had that issue for awhile. Thanks for the info! Now on to part 2: finding an M-keyed M.2 to SATA adapter to repurpose the old one
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What I hear is that it's better to keep your os off a QLC drive to prevent all of the random writes, but it's fine for games / apps / storage, as long as it's not over full, but I don't know how important that really is. Not a super amount, I suspect.
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Some Goon posted:What I hear is that it's better to keep your os off a QLC drive to prevent all of the random writes
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Random writes from the OS aren't really that big a deal, for either drive endurance or performance, even on QLC. It's a relatively small amount of data and it's gonna stay within the SLC cache easily. As long as you keep enough spare space that the drive has more SLC cache than normal use will consume, the QLC badness will never be apparent. If I was running a QLC drive one thing I might do is turn off Shadowplay (or the same features on AMD / xbox game bar) since that involves constantly writing video to the drive while you're playing games. Or re-direct it to a different drive if possible. However, Rev. Bleech_ posted:Prime Day has a P5 NVMe up for $115 and I'm tempted to pull the trigger But I wanna point out that Newegg currently has the WD SN750 at an equal $120 right now. Between the P5 and the SN750 I'd take the SN750, because they have roughly equal performance but the P5 has somewhat crazy thermals. I dunno why the P5 is so hot but it is way more prone to throttling than the average drive.
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Klyith posted:Random writes from the OS aren't really that big a deal, for either drive endurance or performance, even on QLC. It's a relatively small amount of data and it's gonna stay within the SLC cache easily. As long as you keep enough spare space that the drive has more SLC cache than normal use will consume, the QLC badness will never be apparent. oh nice, Amazon matched that SN750 price and it supposedly clobbers the P5 in random write, ordered. Going from the SATA mode X400 to NVME should be a fuckin' ride since ASUS apparently added NVME support to my board a couple of years back
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:since ASUS apparently added NVME support to my board a couple of years back Uh, is this a motherboard from before NVMe existed that had support added in later bios updates? Some of those can attach NVMe storage but can't boot the OS from a NVMe drive, so you may want to check the details for that.
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Klyith posted:Uh, is this a motherboard from before NVMe existed that had support added in later bios updates? Some of those can attach NVMe storage but can't boot the OS from a NVMe drive, so you may want to check the details for that. According to Intel's docs and posts elsewhere I should be fine. It's a Z97 chipset and it post-dates the spec finalization by a couple of years EDIT: worst case I'm planning on a new build in the next 6 months or so Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:According to Intel's docs and posts elsewhere I should be fine. It's a Z97 chipset and it post-dates the spec finalization by a couple of years Bear in mind that I think you'll only get two lanes of PCIe 3.0 out of a Z97, so expect a speed limit of ~1500-1700MB/sec, not 3000+.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Bear in mind that I think you'll only get two lanes of PCIe 3.0 out of a Z97, so expect a speed limit of ~1500-1700MB/sec, not 3000+. Other than benchmarking, that'll never matter. Hell, if you're expecting some mind-blowing difference between a SATA SSD and a NVMe SSD in every day use, you're in for some disappointment. Expect a couple (like, literally 2) second difference in boot time, and virtually no difference in gaming. Not having wires all over the damned place sure is nice, though.
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DrDork posted:Other than benchmarking, that'll never matter. Oh this is nice to hear. I just found a steal on one of those tb3 docks with a built in m2 slot for pcie 3x2. I'm on a mission to make my macbook midrange gaming capable so that plus my egpu seems like it will be good enough for me
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AverySpecialfriend posted:Oh this is nice to hear. I just found a steal on one of those tb3 docks with a built in m2 slot for pcie 3x2. I'm on a mission to make my macbook midrange gaming capable so that plus my egpu seems like it will be good enough for me Yeah, most games right now are build around the assumption of max transfers of like...100MB/s, thanks to consoles still having HDDs. So a SATA SSD at 600MB/s is still way faster than most games are able to really use, let alone the multi-GB/s you can get out of NVMe. Latency certainly helps in a lot of cases, but latency between basically all SSDs is close enough to not have much of a meaningful impact in real world applications. Get whatever fits your setup and you'll probably never even realize that a slightly faster option might have been available for triple the price.
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https://in.reuters.com/article/us-i...e-idINKBN2742IYquote:Intel Corp is preparing to sell its NAND memory chip business to South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc for around $10 billion in an all-cash transaction, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Interesting they are getting rid of NAND but keeping XPoint.
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priznat posted:Interesting they are getting rid of NAND but keeping XPoint. Optane is more integrated with Intel platform efforts, whereas NAND is just this thing that kind of dangles off to the side of their business. Also I don't know if SKHynix even wants to play in that market. And they might just want the Chinese fab and screw everything else
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priznat posted:Interesting they are getting rid of NAND but keeping XPoint. I'd guess Xpoint wouldn't add much to the sale price since it's still more potential than product. Especially to someone like SK Hynix, who are not exactly a R&D powerhouse. If they're selling the "drive business in the United States" I wonder if that includes the rights to continue to sell SSDs with intel branding?
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SKHynix is relatively new to the SSD game right? I'd imagine soaking up all the business contracts and channels gives them a good head start
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Yeah I wonder if they are going to keep making nand based drives at all, they are doing less on the controller side in house so perhaps just want to focus solely on dimm based optane or whatever. It’s not a bad move to get out of nand, it’s just a commodity and if you’re not one of the big dogs it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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Beyond the business reasons, politically the China fab has been a problem for Intel too. Not entirely surprised they want to offload it.
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WhyteRyce posted:SKHynix is relatively new to the SSD game right? I'd imagine soaking up all the business contracts and channels gives them a good head start No, only new to retail drives. They've been supplying full drives to OEMs for a long time, but since they were OEM-only they didn't have much visibility. (And I gather that they weren't stellar performers until recently.) So they've got plenty of contacts and channels, but aren't a consumer name. That's why I was thinking about the deal maybe including the Intel name for SSDs in the US. $10 billion is way too much for just a NAND fab, that's what TSMC's newest 7nm+ fab cost. NAND stuff is considerably cheaper.
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Klyith posted:No, only new to retail drives. They've been supplying full drives to OEMs for a long time, but since they were OEM-only they didn't have much visibility. (And I gather that they weren't stellar performers until recently.) I believe they are new to enterprise though, something which is both more lucrative than client/retail and something Intel has plenty of contacts and channels for
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WhyteRyce posted:I believe they are new to enterprise though, something which is both more lucrative than client/retail and something Intel has plenty of contacts and channels for They have been making memory for eons. I wouldn't worry about the brand at all.
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redeyes posted:They have been making memory for eons. I wouldn't worry about the brand at all. making and selling memory != making and selling enterprise ssds
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WhyteRyce posted:I believe they are new to enterprise though, something which is both more lucrative than client/retail and something Intel has plenty of contacts and channels for SK bought an enterprise SSD business unit from Violin Memory all the way back in 2014. They've been around, just haven't been making huge waves. (Which means it still makes sense to gain access to Intel's contacts and channels.)
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BobHoward posted:SK bought an enterprise SSD business unit from Violin Memory all the way back in 2014. They've been around, just haven't been making huge waves. (Which means it still makes sense to gain access to Intel's contacts and channels.) Yeah, being around doesn't mean much itself. First time quals are painful, every customer has their own asks and nuances which aren't captured until they've run it through their own testing, and people are slow to trust a vendor they've never worked with before Intel learned multiple times the hard way you can't just walk into an enterprise business segment with just your name and an SSD and I still don't know if they've gotten it. But sorry Hynix buyer beware WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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WhyteRyce posted:Yeah, being around doesn't mean much itself. First time quals are painful, every customer has their own asks and nuances which aren't captured until they've run it through their own testing, and people are slow to trust a vendor they've never worked with before TBH the entire SSD industry has had some growing to do. Don't you think the tech is pretty mature at this point? Or am I missing some super high end stuff that consumers don't have privy to?
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redeyes posted:TBH the entire SSD industry has had some growing to do. Don't you think the tech is pretty mature at this point? Or am I missing some super high end stuff that consumers don't have privy to? Customers ask for their own log pages for counters or flags that they care about. You could argue something like the OCP spec might try to standardize it but it and products aren't there yet. A huge amount of nvme features are optional (for example fw update without reset is not required by the spec but may be by a customer). SSD features themselves are up to vendor implementation, like what your drive does when the plp cap fails its self test. This isn't even getting into hacks some customers learned in the early SAS/ATA days and still expect to use. Do you know the systems the customers want to put your drives in? What are the form factors and power and cooling envelopes you have to fit in to? Do you expose different NVMe power states so I can set it myself? Are you selling m.2, u.2, e1.s, pcie aic? Are you selling 22110 or 2280 m.2? Is this customer only caring about e1.s? What pitch? What is your catastrophic error handling policy? How is it communicated and handled? It's not a unique or difficult problem but it is something that can easily slip through the cracks for a company just starting to get their foot in the door. Possibly better to buy this knowledge instead of wasting 2-3 years going through a failed product lifecycle WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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Got it, not the actual tech, all the enterprise requirements.
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So it's actually only $9B, $7B at the end of 2021 and $2B in 2025. I don't know big business acquisitions but that seems like Intel got squeezed at the last minute
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I've been using 2 2TB WD Passport Ultra HDD's as external backup drives for just over 5 years now. (1 plugged in, 1 in offsite storage, rotated monthly) Thinking of updating them to something newer. I've decided it's between 2x Samsung T5 2TB (£568) or 2x 860 Evo 2TB (£480) + USB 3.0 to Sata external housing thing. I'm leaning towards the Evo's. Yes/no?
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Ak Gara posted:I've been using 2 2TB WD Passport Ultra HDD's as external backup drives for just over 5 years now. (1 plugged in, 1 in offsite storage, rotated monthly) Thinking of updating them to something newer. I'd just update them to newer (and larger, if necessary) HDDs. I don't see the point in SSDs as back-up storage, especially when HDDs are plenty fine and aren't in constant use, so aren't at the usual risk of failure. Seems pretty wasteful to be honest.
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I wouldn't use SSDs for storage that you unplug. Just rotate two larger capacity hard drives. Or honestly, if you only have 2TB of data then £550 buys you a few years of Backblaze.
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Speaking of Backblaze I have a subscription with them for consumer stuff, but I keep hearing about B2 from them which I assume is a business option, is it that much better? Dunno if there’s a better thread for this.
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ijyt posted:Speaking of Backblaze I have a subscription with them for consumer stuff, but I keep hearing about B2 from them which I assume is a business option, is it that much better? B2 is "better" in the sense that they don't try to limit you as much--you can back up networked drives / multiple computers without jumping through hoops, and I believe the upload speeds are better, too. The downside is it's a pay-by-the-GB deal, rather than the unlimited consumer plan.
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DrDork posted:B2 is "better" in the sense that they don't try to limit you as much--you can back up networked drives / multiple computers without jumping through hoops, and I believe the upload speeds are better, too. The downside is it's a pay-by-the-GB deal, rather than the unlimited consumer plan. It’s also more like Amazon S3 where anything that has a client can write to it and not “backup one pc with our client” and you can also download whatever you want without Backblaze having to process it
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DrDork posted:B2 is "better" in the sense that they don't try to limit you as much--you can back up networked drives / multiple computers without jumping through hoops, and I believe the upload speeds are better, too. The downside is it's a pay-by-the-GB deal, rather than the unlimited consumer plan. Hmm, would roughly double my monthly price, not including download costs, and I only have the one PC to backup anyway. Not being able to backup network drives was something I wasn't aware of with the consumer plan - I wonder how easy it is to switch whenever I do finally get around to setting up a NAS.
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I need to expand my /home partition as 700GB doesn't seem to cut it anymore (got 1 NVME 1TB drive, of which I gave less than 300GB to the / partition and the rest to /home). I was thinking on getting one of those PCIe boards that can hold more NVME drives (some can even do 4). Since I just need them for /home, I thought maybe I could get a couple of drives (to be determined if buying 2 drives is cheaper/better than 1 larger drive) and RAID-0 them. Is RAID-0 providing any benefit to NVME? I have an x299 intel MB, so I assume it'll have some kind of lovely software raid chipset available and nothing more. Or are there NVME cards that can do RAID-0 internally, all in hardware, presuming it's worth the speed boost?
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Volguus posted:I need to expand my /home partition as 700GB doesn't seem to cut it anymore (got 1 NVME 1TB drive, of which I gave less than 300GB to the / partition and the rest to /home). I was thinking on getting one of those PCIe boards that can hold more NVME drives (some can even do 4). Since I just need them for /home, I thought maybe I could get a couple of drives (to be determined if buying 2 drives is cheaper/better than 1 larger drive) and RAID-0 them. RAIDing NVME drives will get you some really cool benchmark scores you can brag about but it won't have any perceivable impact on actual usage.
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Volguus posted:Is RAID-0 providing any benefit to NVME? I have an x299 intel MB, so I assume it'll have some kind of lovely software raid chipset available and nothing more. Or are there NVME cards that can do RAID-0 internally, all in hardware, presuming it's worth the speed boost? 2x 1TB cards are almost always more expensive than 1x 2TB cards. Things only get different when you start talking about like 4+ TB. There are PCIe add-on cards that can do their own hardware RAID. They are expensive enough you probably don't want to bother. RAID--0 in general gives you basically no usable benefits unless you're running databases or something out of them, while ensuring that if either has an issue that you lose all your data instead of just half.
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