I have a $3,000 computer with 16GB of RAM and a beefed up processor, but Slack, Chrome and Spotify bring it to its knees. A messaging app, a web browser, and a music player. I could comfortably run those on the hardware I had 20 yrs ago.
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Irrelevant. Divide between an ssd & hdd like he said. The core processor can run separate computations but the drive cannot unless its a quantum drive & you cant buy that commercially yet
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That's... Not how it works. The io subsystem can and does schedule many access at one. The drive orders those. "Seek" is always going to be better with SSD. Aside from all of that, none of these apps are io bound on disk.
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If you want to meet me at a dell lab someday, I will prove to you that the theory you quote is correct. But in reality the mechanical progression it follows is not as clear cut as the manufacturers & professors would have you believe.Interrupted signals are resent repeatedly.
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Sure, happy to meet at "dell lab". I used to work at LSI on high bandwidth ASICs over PCI but I'm sure it's the professors who have confused me.
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And Jim. No disrespect intended. I know you're tops. In this case we lost over $1M on a similar issue in our node/noc until we discover the fallacy
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Yes, you can definitely lose a pile of money just transitioning workloads to SSD especially if you're buying the hardware without knowing the trade-offs. I'm still doubtful that OS separation on storage for desktop apps is the issue. I suspect that it's processor cache thrashing.
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That was like Geek-UFC shit right there.
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Meet me at the Dell lab, bro
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Actually if it’s a recent MacBook you have a 1tb PCI-e Flash storage drive that runs circles round an SSD. The specs and the OS definitely aren’t the problem here.
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AKA, an SSD
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No, typically an SSD refers to something using the SATA or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interfaces. PCIe-based flash is an entirely separate category.
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Are you referring to an M.2 SSD?
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No, although they’re related. - A typical SSD can only connect to SATA or SAS - A typical PCIe flash drive can only connect to a PCIe port - An M.2 drive uses either SATA or PCIe, dependent on the drive
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This is incorrect. SSD refers to the storage mechanism, not the I/O interface. There are people who conflate the two, but there are also a significant number of people who call the tower of a desktop the “CPU”.

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I'm not disagreeing with the imprecision, I'm pointing out that when someone says they're buying an SSD they mean a SATA SSD 99% of the time, an SAS SSD 1% of the time, & almost never a PCIe flash drive. This isn't about what is objectively correct, it's about use of the term.
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What is going on in this thread Holy hell. I own a few Samsung 960 Evo "SSDs" It's pci-e, it's m.2 But it's still an ssd. Do you get mad when people say ssl and mean tls?
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