On Wed May 23 18, Stephen Partington wrote: >In My experience you spend more time waiting on bios than on the OS to >load. the real boost is when you have heavy disk IO and DB workloads are >crazy fast. > Most of my time is spent working with git and dealing with various branches of the kernel, and the speed up was quite noticable when I moved from a sata based ssd to an m.2 nvme drive (Samsung evo 960). >On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:57 PM, wrote: > >> >> >> I wonder about the NVMe vs SSD. I have and SSD in my desktop and it boots >> much faster than my Laptop that has NVMe. They are not totally the same, >> however I think they are close enough. I think some of the performance is >> based on who made the NVMe or SSD. >> >> >> >> >> On 2018-05-22 13:57, Brian Cluff wrote: >> >>> For me, I would get a system that can use a NVMe. They are about the >>> same price as an SSD, but make and SSD look extremely slow. >>> >>> If you don't need it to be portable, then go with a desktop system. >>> They are much cheaper for the amount of power you get, are tougher so >>> they will last you longer, upgrade-able so they will last you longer. >>> They also offer much better cooling so when you are running the CPU at >>> it's maximum speed that it will actually be able to keep cool enough >>> to stay running at it's maximum speed without having to throttle >>> itself down to less than half the speed in order to not burn up, and >>> the same thing can be said of the GPU. >>> >>> My 6 year old desktop is faster than the fastest laptop you can get >>> new now and it cost me about half what a high end laptop would cost. >>> Getting a system with an NVMe is one of the biggest driving forces for >>> making me want to get a new system these days... they are just so >>> crazy fast that they really make your system feel like a rocket >>> compared to the same machine with even a SATA attached SSD. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> On 05/22/2018 03:27 AM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> If I were to build a work system today, I would take the following road. >>>> >>>> I would go with a laptop with an SSD, at least an i5, an upgraded video >>>> card like nvidia instead of the video built in the CPU, and I would go with >>>> something that had decent resolution. >>>> >>>> A laptop like this one : http://www.dell.com/en-us/work >>>> /shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/vostro-15-5000/spd/vostro- >>>> 15-5568-laptop/cav155w10p18s038 >>>> >>>> I'd add an external backup drive, an external keyboard, an external >>>> mouse, and I'd add 2 external flat screen monitors of around 21 inches each. >>>> >>>> Two of the reasons I moved back to Windows after running Linux Mint for >>>> 4 or 5 years was I was not able to take advantage of the screen share >>>> utilities such as Go-To-Meetings and I wanted my printer to be plug and >>>> play so I can use all it's features. >>>> >>>> At one point I was running a laptop with one external flat screen. >>>> Makes a lot of sense, since you are doing everything on one box that is >>>> also mobile. >>>> >>>> And I think moving as much as you can to the cloud is a good thing. >>>> >>>> Now this configuration is what fits my needs. What are your needs? Are >>>> you editing images or videos? Are you a developer? Or are you researching >>>> Linux, or is your research about external things? >>>> >>>> For a simple configuration I'd go with a cheap used laptop with an i3 >>>> and bottom of the line resolution, add and SSD, add Mint, add an external >>>> backup drive. >>>> >>>> I have 3 or 4 of these SSDs and they are on sale : >>>> https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147676 >>>> >>>> I have two cheap used laptop running these. Great performance and as I >>>> recall they have a 5 year warrantee. I use one as a Linux web server for >>>> testing. The other I might use for an experiment. I'd like to load Mint on >>>> it and see how far I can push the cloud. I'd like to do everything >>>> external, using mostly free stuff. I do some video editing so I may need a >>>> little more power. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2018-05-21 19:30, mike enriquez wrote: >>>> >>>>> I am planing to build a Linux computer. I have Ubuntu 16.0 on an old >>>>> Dell XPS. I will be using it as my research computer. So "I will be >>>>> going where where others do not dare to go." I want a VPN on it >>>>> because I have not been able to install a VPN on the computer I now >>>>> have. I want a 64bit OS. >>>>> >>>>> I know that most people say to use and old computer to run Linux. I >>>>> need ideas on Hardware to avoid and use. What would you do if you had >>>>> to build your own Linux computer from scratch? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your input. >>>>> >>>>> Mike Enriquez >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > >-- >A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > >Stephen >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss