Does that mean they are enlarging the inventory now? As opposed to dismantling old bombs as they make new ones (modernization while keeping the number constant)? I thought there was a treaty capping the total number but haven’t been keeping track.
WTF. What could possibly go wrong. Flip phone here I come.
Sounds like it would be nice if Savannah offered Forgejo hosting.
Ok I used to feel sorry for non-libre streaming software users, but this is now in “one born every minute” territory. Thanks.
What the heck is this thing? Should many of us care?
At least here in the US, lots of mobile phone plans have free or cheap international calls, depending on the countries involved. Example. Some home landline plans also have that. So far that has been enough for me on the few occasions when I’ve wanted to make an international call. If more frequent, I’d use a VOIP provider, maybe Twilio (I’m sure there are others too, but I know Twilio supports this and has a decent API).
VOIP providers will often also sell you inbound phone numbers in the destination country, if you want the other person to be able to call you from their landline without it getting rung up as an international call for them. Those aren’t always so cheap, but there are obvious use cases.
Oh I see. Yeah DVD drives generally use the same SATA interface as hard drives.
If you mean a 2.5" drive (laptop sized) then yes you can generally do that. 3.5" drives are usually 1" thick and won’t fit in a slim DVD drive slot.
It’s a substack (ugh), but you can click “no thanks” under the email field and it takes you to the article, which is by Ryan Grim. The article is somewhat hard to understand though, as it jumps between a few different topics.
Hope they are vegan zombies.
Newegg doesn’t seem to sell the Crucial MX500 any more*, only the BX500. But if the 870 evo is comparable, I might get that, since I have a couple of MX500s now and am happy with them. I hadn’t realized that Team Group was legit at all! I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks!
*Note: The MX500 appears on Newegg’s web site, but the actual sellers are “Newegg Marketplace” randos rather than Newegg itself, and I prefer to buy directly from Newegg when possible.
So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day
I thought we had Usenet since the 1970s.
I don’t think I can use NVMe in my old laptop but yes, otherwise I’d do so. ;)
Thanks, I think you have it right and that it’s not worth messing with adapters. The adapter was never about performance from my perspective though. It was about being able to keep using the drive if I eventually moved to a laptop with an M.2 slot.
QVO is QLC flash which has worse durability. I’m trying to stay away from it though maybe it works better now than it originally did. Hmm, I had thought that the drive I looked at a while back had HMB but was not NVMe. Maybe you are right and I didn’t look closely enough. I believe those SATA shells don’t work with NVMe drives.
The purpose of the cache is to improve latency and save SSD wear. It doesn’t help much with throughput as far as I know. Although if it’s on the host side, maybe it does.
HMB is host memory buffer or something like that. It means instead of having a ram buffer in the drive, the OS software uses some of the host computer’s memory for disk buffering. That makes the drive cheaper but I haven’t heard claims of it being any faster. Consumer drives seem to all use it now, and Linux supports it, but maybe not when you wrap up the HMB drive in a SATA shell.
I guess $90 for 1TB is pretty good. I have been suspicious of the EVO drives but at least they aren’t QVO.
Thanks!
Thanks, I wasn’t really thinking about transfer speeds, it’s just the PCIe drives are cheaper (depending) and more re-usable if I get a newer laptop later. I think you are right though that it’s not worth messing with adapters.
I dunno if there’s such a thing as a reliable brand. The brands have reliable and unreliable models. Particularly I have the idea that I should be avoiding QLC drives, but that TLC these days is ok.
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If they own houses that is public info.