Let's take a minute to talk about hard drives

phyrrus9 · 04-19-2018, 05:55 AM

So, I usually have a windows drive in my PC, and then I just install Arch Linux on whatever spare hard drive I have an I'm always happy with it, never feels slow to me. This morning (due to a failing drive), I decided to ditch the windows drive and migrate Arch over to that. Now, Linux was running on just a standard 3.5" SATA magnetic disk, but my windows drive was a PCIe-based NVMe V-NAND solid state disk. You can buy one pretty cheaply from Amazon.

Now, the 950 PRO I'm using is outdated, the 960's are much faster, but those are all in use on my servers. At the end of my migration though I was completely blown away by the speed of it. I mean, system boot in 1.7 seconds, 13.7Gbps write speed, 41.9Gbps cached read speeds, this is amazing. You should all buy one.

Here's the results of my speed testing:
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mothered · 04-19-2018, 09:17 AM

The speeds are Insane, something I've yet to experience anything close to It.

I'd be Interested to know the boot time from Initially hitting the power button, going through the BIOS/UEFI, until everything Is fully loaded and functional.

phyrrus9 · 04-19-2018, 09:51 AM

(04-19-2018, 09:17 AM)mothered Wrote: The speeds are Insane, something I've yet to experience anything close to It.

I'd be Interested to know the boot time from Initially hitting the power button, going through the BIOS/UEFI, until everything Is fully loaded and functional.

Counting off the top of my head, 17 seconds.

POST takes a good deal of time (about 5sec) because I have 32gb of RAM and a RAID array to initialize,
after I manually log in and start xorg, I have to rearrange the monitors into the right order, then start 2 instances of chrome and 1 instance of discord

17 seconds and all of that was done, discord was showing everything and youtube was playing.

mothered · 04-19-2018, 10:06 AM

17 seconds (fully booted and functional) Is extremely quick with everything mentioned, particularly with the Initialization of RAID.

I'm now curious how quick my system with 32GB of Ram and SSD boot drive performs. I'll give It a test later this evening.

phyrrus9 · 04-19-2018, 10:12 AM

(04-19-2018, 10:06 AM)mothered Wrote: 17 seconds (fully booted and functional) Is extremely quick with everything mentioned, particularly with the Initialization of RAID.

I'm now curious how quick my system with 32GB of Ram and SSD boot drive performs. I'll give It a test later this evening.

The more ram you have, the longer it will take to boot. It seems backwards, but POST meminit is slow

mothered · 04-19-2018, 10:28 AM

(04-19-2018, 10:12 AM)phyrrus9 Wrote:
(04-19-2018, 10:06 AM)mothered Wrote: 17 seconds (fully booted and functional) Is extremely quick with everything mentioned, particularly with the Initialization of RAID.

I'm now curious how quick my system with 32GB of Ram and SSD boot drive performs. I'll give It a test later this evening.

The more ram you have, the longer it will take to boot. It seems backwards, but POST meminit is slow

I know, that's why I'm Interested In testing my system running 32GB of Ram.

I'll then hit a comparison on my other system with the exact hardware, but with 16GB.

protomcd · 08-01-2018, 02:14 AM

HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DO THIS I cant even get my ssd past 30

Vultra · 08-01-2018, 03:56 AM

fuck dude. that's crazy. the m.2 ssd's are so expensive then the normal ssd. I don't know if my MB can support it (probs could)

phyrrus9 · 08-01-2018, 02:55 PM

(08-01-2018, 03:56 AM)Mimiakira Wrote: fuck dude. that's crazy. the m.2 ssd's are so expensive then the normal ssd. I don't know if my MB can support it (probs could)

If you have PCIe slots that are 4-bit or wider, it supports it. rev-2 will be slower than rev-3, but still faster than SATA.