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  • Would You Trust This?

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  • Yeah, I'm quite aware of a lot of the junk on Amazon -- and I normally would stick to a well known brand like Samsung, WD, or Crucial... But there were no listings for m.2 SSD's in the 32-64G range. At first I ordered a "Kingdata" drive (an obvious play on Kingston), but later I saw a listing for a drive from Transcend -- which I recalled from my IT days, and a quick check of their website confirmed they were the company I was thinking of.

    So, this is why I am fairly certain that this is some kind of labeling / packaging mistake. Transcend is reasonably well-known, and afaik aren't scammers.

    And, to top it off, I ran some additional tests on the drive... And for what it is, it is performing exactly how I would have expected: 420MB/s read/write, with 0.1msec access times -- with extreme consistency. (Given that this is installed on a PCIE adapter that only has 1 lane available.)

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  • Okay - wild... The results of f3probe:

    Good news: The device `/dev/sda' is the real thing

    Device geometry: Usable size: 931.51 GB (1953525168 blocks) Announced size: 931.51 GB (1953525168 blocks) Module: 1.00 TB (240 Bytes) Approximate cache size: 0.00 Byte (0 blocks), need-reset=no Physical block size: 512.00 Byte (29 Bytes)

    Probe time: 16.12s

    Oops - misstated something before. This is an MLC NAND drive, the cache is supposed to be DDR4 DRAM. I suspect, however, this is a mis-labeled drive...

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  • I agree - I wouldn't trust it either...and, surprisingly, this one came from Amazon, and not some fly-by-night AliExpress store. (I rarely purchase something there without seeing reviews first...

    But the other thing about this is that I checked out the website for the product. They are a company that specializes in enterprise and embedded products. I was pretty certain I had heard of them before in the enterprise world, which is why I purchased the drive.

    The reason I bought this drive was because it specifies having a NAND cache on it (MLC, but beggars can't be choosers with drives like this), whereas the others I looked at didn't have (or at list didn't have specs which listed having) any form of NAND caching.

    @nao@sh.itjust.works - thanks f or the pointer to f3 -- I'll grab it and check the drive before I return it.

  • New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed

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  • I'm just really glad that I don't play any games from EA....

  • Trump posts racist, AI-generated video of Schumer and Jeffries ahead of looming government shutdown | CNN Politics

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  • At this point a shutdown might be for the best -- keep them from changing a bunch of stuff in parts of the government where we aren't looking at.

    That's one of the things that really has me nervous -- we're seeing so much crap that they are doing publicly that I am really concerned about the stuff we aren't seeing.

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  • Just what nobody wanted in their eReading software.

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    Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • The one, the only, the legend...

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    Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • Mine's best for me:I get it set up the way I want, the updates are frequent but not too frequent, and it has all the packages I need.

    My choice isn't necessarily (or even likely) the best for everyone. There's a lot to consider when selecting (or recommneding) a distribution. It's not a one-size-fits-all scenario.

  • Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)

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  • This is definitely something that has been coming for some time. Yes, I am a little surprised it has taken this long for a major channel know for hardware reviews for gamers to take this step... I would have thought that the popularity of the Steam Deck, and all of the handhelds that are now running Linux would have been a motivator.

    But it seems that Steve is really seeing that there is more of a progression of people not wanting to go to Windows 11, and the issues surrounding Microsoft's insistence on adding creepy features that no one asked for (like Recall) as the push they needed.

    And I agree, Bazzite is probably one of the best choices that they could make. The immutability of the system will allow them to have consistent images that won't change on them randomly. That is a definite requirement when dealing with this type of benchmarking.

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • I don't know if you were joking or not... But in case you weren't: the Intel guys typically have information about upcoming / unreleased products before the details are out in the open. Yes, the drivers can be maintained by the community when the information is available... But, day one driver support won't be there (since they are generally developed in-house by Intel, and then pushed up to the kernel for release), and community development would (likely) take significantly longer....

    And on the Enterprise customer side, there might be some hesitation about adopting newer Intel products that don't have drivers officially supported by the company...at least in environments where Linux would be the (logical) choice... That might lead Enterprises to look at Windows instead of Linux.