said David C. Rankin via tde-users: | I've had flawless luck with Samsung EVO 960, 970 and 980 drives. Of | course the manufactures always find ways to cheapen the drives each | iteration (ATA/SATA instruction set removal of some commands, etc..), | but on balance, the drive media has always been good. From 3D Nand on. | I've also run Crucial, HP and other manufacturer drives that came in | whatever box I bought. Same result - no issues. This one is a 1tb 980. I am hoping the PCIe motherboard adapters are pretty much the same -- they're almost frighteningly cheap -- and reliable. | But, drives are drives, so it may just be the luck of the dice. I've had | supposed "Top Quality" Ironwolf server drives die in a matter of weeks, | while I've had white-label remans run for 12+ years. I've had one Seagate spinning disk DOA, and in the olden days I managed to blow up a nide Conner 120mb drive while learning that no, they couldn't be hot swapped. (It contained the contents of a book, due in days. Fortunately, I had a backup on floppy. Unfortunately, I decided I'd better back up the floppy, and while the new disc was formatting I looked down to see I was holding the new disk in my hand -- while the book was being formatted away. That mistake cost me $1200 to a date recovery company, plus express shipping. I've tried to be more careful since then.) | So "good luck" on the next drive you get. Thanks. It arrived today. Rehearsing the procedure I hope to employ tomorrow when I install it. The Raspberry Pi 5 devices have spoiled me for very quick boots, and the Debian boot seems very long, probably because so much of it is blank screen, just long enough to seem as if something has gone wrong. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
