Re: Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 4:03 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > On 4/4/20 15:27, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:45 AM pmkel...@frontier.com < > pmkel...@frontier.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > I'm not sure the having UEFI is the differentiator... I have a 6th gen I5 > > computer

Re: Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 4/4/20 15:27, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:45 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I'm not sure the having UEFI is the differentiator... I have a 6th gen I5 computer which boots UEFI fine but predates NVMe. On that one I use a PCIEx4 adapter and have /boot and /boot/EFI on

Re: Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:45 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > On 4/4/20 10:24, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:14 AM pmkel...@frontier.com < > pmkel...@frontier.com> > > wrote: > > M.2 SSD's can come in SATA and NVMe variants. > > > > As far as USB 3.0, it's pretty fast and some

Re: Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 4/4/20 10:24, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:14 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: One thing that seems rather puzzling is that NVMe is offered in three different connection configurations. PCI-E, USB (with a USB connector), and SSD via SATA (with an SATA connector. Since mult

Re: Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
pmkel...@frontier.com composed on 2020-04-04 10:13 (UTC-0400): > One thing that seems rather puzzling is that NVMe is offered in three > different connection configurations. PCI-E, USB (with a USB connector), > and SSD via SATA (with an SATA connector. Since multichannel PCI-E is > very much fa

Re: Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:14 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > One thing that seems rather puzzling is that NVMe is offered in three > different connection configurations. PCI-E, USB (with a USB connector), > and SSD via SATA (with an SATA connector. Since multichannel PCI-E is > very much faste

Testing with NVMe

2020-04-04 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
At last Monday's meeting there was mention of a need to start testing with NVMe. I volunteered to get some and help with that. Part of my motivation was the desire to become familiar with it and see if it's something I might have an application for. NVMe seems to have been creat