RE: Increasing Reliability

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It's amazing how small the M.2 drives really are. When I opened mine up for my PC I was really surprised by it. Glad you found my snapshots helpful, have them up for this exact reason, syncing takes forever. I really want to get myself either a in home server or a server colocated close to home to have something to tinker with, but being a broke college student really doesn't help(nor does it help I'm in 2 different places half the year).

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Yeah, I know the feeling. I spent a great part of my university time on unuseful trips. If it was today, I would have moved next to the study place and lived there.

These Samsung NVMe's are not super crazy in random IO's (especially not super on reads in low queue depths, which is what I am looking for), but on throughput they are massive! The PCIe 4.0 new version does around 6.4 GB/s on windows! It's crazy... a quick comparison on windows (with the SAMSUNG Magician app):

These random IO/s are not very representative because they are with 2 queue depth if I am not mistaken... which is stupid to report in a tool like this for an NVMe... But I understand why they do report low queue depths instead.

Now, the moment you increase queue depth to 10's for example... this thing becomes very interesting on IO. Will try to do a more comprehensive benchmark from within a VM once I can, which is what I am exploring. On windows, this is overkill for what most people do.

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On windows, this is overkill for what most people do.

Just the way we like it. It's amazing how cheap it's getting over time. You can now get over 1 TB SSD(NVME too) for under $100(though you won't get those speeds). I'm hoping for days where the smallest SSDs start at 1 TB because they get that cheap.

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Yeah... the EVO was 2x the price of the PRO, 2 years ago. 😭

At work, I deal with enterprise 2 year old SSDs and NVMe's... 8TB and 14TB for the SSD ones... 400GB for the NVMe's (but crazy fas on IOs, around 100k's per level of queue depth almost) which interface with 12Gb/s SAS and they can't reach these sequential throughputs, not even half most likely. So definitely now it's going to get cheaper for general market consumption.

I am eager to start seeing that 400 TB and above SSDs that got announced (prototype) in 2019. When those reach the enterprise market, this is going to be interesting. Probably on my next HPC cluster.

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400 TB... Holy hell. How much do they cost? And more importantly, how long till they become suitable for consumer purchases? My 256 GB ssd on my laptop will be puny compared to that.

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