Newegg doesn’t seem to sell the Crucial MX500 any more*, only the BX500. But if the 870 evo is comparable, I might get that, since I have a couple of MX500s now and am happy with them. I hadn’t realized that Team Group was legit at all! I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks!

*Note: The MX500 appears on Newegg’s web site, but the actual sellers are “Newegg Marketplace” randos rather than Newegg itself, and I prefer to buy directly from Newegg when possible.

So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day

I thought we had Usenet since the 1970s.

I don’t think I can use NVMe in my old laptop but yes, otherwise I’d do so. ;)

Thanks, I think you have it right and that it’s not worth messing with adapters. The adapter was never about performance from my perspective though. It was about being able to keep using the drive if I eventually moved to a laptop with an M.2 slot.

QVO is QLC flash which has worse durability. I’m trying to stay away from it though maybe it works better now than it originally did. Hmm, I had thought that the drive I looked at a while back had HMB but was not NVMe. Maybe you are right and I didn’t look closely enough. I believe those SATA shells don’t work with NVMe drives.

Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee which oversees the Library of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office, is alleging it is “no coincidence [Trump] acted less than a day after [Perlmutter] refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”

The purpose of the cache is to improve latency and save SSD wear. It doesn’t help much with throughput as far as I know. Although if it’s on the host side, maybe it does.

HMB is host memory buffer or something like that. It means instead of having a ram buffer in the drive, the OS software uses some of the host computer’s memory for disk buffering. That makes the drive cheaper but I haven’t heard claims of it being any faster. Consumer drives seem to all use it now, and Linux supports it, but maybe not when you wrap up the HMB drive in a SATA shell.

I guess $90 for 1TB is pretty good. I have been suspicious of the EVO drives but at least they aren’t QVO.

Thanks!

Thanks, I wasn’t really thinking about transfer speeds, it’s just the PCIe drives are cheaper (depending) and more re-usable if I get a newer laptop later. I think you are right though that it’s not worth messing with adapters.

I dunno if there’s such a thing as a reliable brand. The brands have reliable and unreliable models. Particularly I have the idea that I should be avoiding QLC drives, but that TLC these days is ok.

Who needs Russia for that? Is it because of the 4chan outage?

Background story from 2023. Multiple violent incidents and steroids and $30K cash were found in the guy’s car:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-01/tesla-road-rage-suspect-los-angeles-history-of-violence-threats

He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in CA but served less than 1, due to prison overcrowding. Apparently he was considered a nonviolent offender, wtf.

Thanks, that was informative. Appears to be 'roid rage behind the road rage.

I didn’t know REI was taking such a bath. It’s full in yuppie fashion now. It once was cooler but much smaller.

Waiting for claims that the election was stolen and that Trump was the real winner.

You can turn off Borg encryption but maybe what you really want is an object store (S3 style). Those exist too.

I’m using Borg and it’s fine at that scale. I don’t know if it would still be viable with 100TB or whatever. The initial backup will be kind of slow but it encrypts everything, and deduplicates it too if I’m not mistaken. In any case, it deduplicates the common situation where you back up another snapshot later. Only the differences get written in the second backup. So you can save new snapshots fairly quickly and without much additional space.

Start a blog instead. I’d rather read it than listen to someone babbling.

Wow cool, I don’t have a project of my own to submit, but can maybe help with someone else’s.

But has he also built an immunity to iocane powder?

I just download the mp3 and play it with mplayer. Don’t need no apps.