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Low performance of encrypted SSD
I have a 128GB Somnambulist SSD. I know this brand is one of the worst. I measured the speed using GNOME Disk Utility, and it showed a read/write speed of 420/340.
After encrypting the SSD with Debian ...
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Is SSD performance hindered by access to folder on SSD via symlink on conventional spinning rust HD?
I prefer to keep my OS and applications on one partition and /home/ on another.
I intend to replace the current / drive with an SSD, then symlink /home/myuser/.local/ to a directory on the SSD because ...
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NVME slower on host than in VM
I first noticed some strange performance hits when I switched from Vagrant to Docker for my local development setup.
After investigating why my databases were slower in this new environment, I came to ...
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How can I frequently update a file without harming my disk?
I've got an i3 install on a laptop with an SSD. Currently I have it configured to save the WM layout on many different events. The tool that I'm using to do this is built on Python, and I'm just ...
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Linux performance on SSD compared to Windows
A week ago I upgraded my main hard disk to an SSD (ADATA SU800) hoping to improve the general performance of my PC. I did a clean install of windows (10) and Linux (Pop-OS). I did notice a great ...
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Alternatives to dd to read/write to a disk?
I'm using cp to read/write from an SSD drive but is not fast enough. Then I used dd, which is fast, especially with the drive unpartitioned. But I ran into errors like
there is no space left on ...
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NVMe Performance not all that good
Just got this Team Force Cardea Zero NVMe PCIe Gen4 drive. It's performance isn't what was promised.
They claim write speeds of 4,400 but I am only seeing 1,500
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img ...
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How to speed-up programs launch with my ssd?
I have 2 disks on my machine: ssd and hdd.
/ mount point is on ssd, /home is on hdd.
C:/ on my Windows 10 is on ssd, too.
It seems to me that some programs (like Chromium web browser) launch much ...
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NVMe disk shows 80% io utilization, partitions show 0% io utilization
I have a CentOS 7 server (kernel 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64) with 2 NVMe disks with the following setup:
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 259:0 0 477G 0 ...
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mv command for many nonexistent files, does it wear off the destination disk at all?
I am trying to continuously move many files (~ 10 000 each minute) from /ramdisk to normal /ssd , but not all files are there.
When the mv /ramdisk/file55 /ssd/file55 fails because source is not ...
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What is best parition format and raid setup for millions of small files? [closed]
If I have millions of small files distributed by folders, what would be the best parition format and what raid setup in order to manage them as fast as possible ? E.g search in all files, find files ...
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How to deal with blocking I/O reducing the performance to a crawl?
I have a computer which is experiencing some serious I/O issues.
Software: Kali-rolling, Linux x86-desktop-1 4.12.0-kali2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.12.13-1kali2 (2017-10-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux. But I've ...
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NMVe SSD Fedora Throughput Tests too High
I am testing throughput of a Samsung 950 Pro SSD Card which uses NVMe protocol. My current method of testing is to mount a file system on a partition and write a file of size X bytes to the file ...
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Will very large write/deletes affect performance of SSD?
Suppose I have a 512gb SSD on a Macbook Pro. I then want to temporarily (for a few days) store 300gb of content on that SSD. Then that 300gb will be deleted.
If done multiple times, would this ...
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64GB Debian 8 Server, Do I need SSD?
I have a Debian 8 server with following config:
Quad Core E3-1270v5
64GB RAM
2x4TB SATA Disks
The server uses nginx 1.10 and redis to deliver files to clients. My question is since newrelic shows my ...
