On 03/07/2019 20:20, druck wrote:
> On 03/07/2019 09:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I only need about 40GB for my SSD to boot from. And store its programs.
>>
>> Data?  All on a networked server running big spinning rust. The switch
>> is only 100Mbps so whats the pont of making that disk SSD?
>
> For the Pi, its not the headline large sequential read and write speed
> that's important, but the 4K random access reads and writes. Theses are
> vastly faster on an SSD than a hard disk, even with a USB2 interface,
> and make a lot of difference when used as a boot disk.
>
> Running a big apt update, which does a lot of disc reads and writes, can
> be 3x to 5x faster with an SSD.
>

Since it happens in background, who really cares?


>> Anyway its well fast enough.
>
> You can never have to much fast!

Yes, you can.

Especially if the fan fails.

I come from a backround that worships at the altar of cost benefit analysis.

Running a business puts one question at the front of the queue?  - "Is
this actually worth doing? will the time and money invested save me time
and make me money down the line?"

In so many cases the answer was 'no'

OK its emotionally satisfying to leave scorch marks on the street with
all that horsepwoer, but why are you running a computer at all?

For me,. although I am a hobbyist, each project or part of my systems
here has a purpose to fulfil a need.

And SSDs in my (intel) server dont fulfil any need I have, nor does the
cost of rewiring the house for gibgabit .

I upgrade when I need to after agonising for months. Not because I want
to fulfil some emotional need to 'be fatser'

Sure compile time on my Pi was crap. Thats why I did all the code
development on a much faster intel machine.

Then I only compiled omce or twice on the pi,




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