Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by wruza on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:51AM
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NVMe throttling from 2GB/s to 0.5GB/s is usually not thermal, it is an SLC cache exhaustion that brings a drive back to MLC/TLC packing mode. One can get samsung pro or a similar ssd and it will retain 2GB/s indefinitely. On cheaper drives, having a lot of free space (i.e. slc cache) may help. Not sure though what process can generate such sustained write bandwidth beyond few things like copying or video transcoding.
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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by greyhair on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:47AM
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Which is why I replaced the cheap drive in my build desktop with a Samsung Pro NVME. It made a significant difference.
Multithreaded builds (make -j 24) can really hammer the drive. Read and write interleaved, which uses up cache in both directions.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by robotnikman on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:47PM
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I've used their Pro NVME drives as my OS drive for the last few years. Never had any issues with read write speeds either