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[Lionel Peterson]

Your response, along with some follow-up research, has me taking my still
unopened 256 Gig device back for the slightly more expensive 512 Gig device
for $30 more. It has 2x the capacity AND nearly double the IOPS.

This is what I bought:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/600419/256gb-3d-nand-m2-2280-pcie-nvme-30
-x4-internal-solid-state-drive

This is what I'll get instead:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/600420/512gb-3d-nand-m2-2280-pcie-nvme-30
-x4-internal-solid-state-drive

Lionel

> On Mar 18, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
>>
>> NVMe is an amazing advance in storage protocols.  It upends many of the
>> assumptions that come with not seek time and having all your read-write
>> heads attached to one arm.
>
> s/ not / appreciable /
>
> Seriously, though, the NVMe industry group have a set of introductory
> slides that explain how nifty this is.  It's brave enough to leave most of
> SCSI behind, which means there's a lot of retooling in the rest of the
> stack, but the result is that storage speed becomes more a problem of not
> having enough PCIe lanes to keep things fed than one of waiting for your
> storage device to get around to what you told it to do.
>
> --
> Jonathan Patschke
> Austin, TX
> USA
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