On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: For the average user, who just emails, browses the web, and does a bit of typing, they could double their CPU speed (and other things) and not notice any tangible difference. Most of the time the computer is idling and waiting for you. You'd really have to do a lot more than just make the computer a twice as fast to see a significant improvement. If everything is currently nice and responsive, you've probably got the system you already need. If you were a heavy graphics gamer, video editor, or anything that required intensive processing work, then you would notice that things go quicker (e.g. if something used to take 30 minutes to render, you're going to appreciate it now taking 15 minutes). So, one way to decide whether to upgrade any hardware is to consider what you do with the computer. If you do anything visually intensive, a better graphics card might be a worthwhile investment, without changing anything else, but if your existing one isn't slow or otherwise insufficient, it's probably not worth it. For some people, simply getting a nicer monitor is a big improvement, even if they don't buy a better graphics card. If your computer ever gets into the running low on RAM stage, then that's something you can quite cheaply improve. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 23 16:47:03 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 12:00:47PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm working on a new microserver that has 2 NVME sticks on a PCIe adapter card (0.5 TB and 1.0 TB) and a Crucial 1.0 TB SSD (SATA 3). Using the simple hdparm -t buffered read test (not the -T cached read) I get about 3000MB/sec with both NVME sticks and about 550MB/sec from the SSD. -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com