Samsung SSD 750 EVO v 850 EVO / Ubuntu

[T i m]

Doesn't it ... like anything you are waiting for (printing off that map or addresses just before you go out / catch the train).

That's why I'm keen to try this Toughbook in the 'field' / ITRW to see if the (new) battery is still holding power and I'm still happy to sit there while it boots when in a car in the winter.

I hope to be able to try the VAG-Com on the Seat Ibiza with the fault light to see what it can (or can't see).

When I had the AA guy out to the 'dead' SL63 the other day his 'remote' OBD box required a firmware upgrade (or the BT tablet he was using on it) and it wouldn't proceed without ... nor did the OTA firmware update work (even over a USB cable). I'm guessing it would have been pretty quick to boot and easy to hold / use, had it actually worked. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

[pamela]

It's not your fault when you damage something that no one else does; it's the fault of the design.

Classic.

ROFL.

[Bod]

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , pamela escribió:

A bad workman blames his tools.

[The Natural Philosopher]

A troll implies that no one else has the problem when its very common.

[Theo]

There are PATASATA adaptors, but it can get a bit mechanically messy. I fitted an SSD to a 2004 laptop with one - had to select the adaptor carefully to fit, and take the case off the SSD. It made a massive difference.

There are also PATA SSDs, but that tends to be random-Chinese-brand-off-ebay territory. Some of them used really terrible flash, but I hope they have now improved. Price/GB is much worse than SATA typically.

Theo

[pamela]

Some people might break a micro-USB plug, he was referring to a "pen drive" which uses a full size USB plug.

Even a teenager would struggle to break that.

The truth is Turnip probably fell asleep watching the telly one night with his laptop on his knees and when the blare of the 4am commercials startled him from his slumbers he snapped the plug. "Very poor design", my foot.

[Clive George]

"Most laptops"? 8G and 16G on the laptops in use here :-)

For some years now I've made sure no system I have anything to do with is running into swap.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nice if you can afford the luxury....

Guess how much RAM gridwatch runs on, and how much swap it has?

[Bod]

I disable the swap and never run out of ram for what I do and I only use

8GB of ram.

[Bod]

[Clive George]

"Afford the luxury"??

If your system is running into swap, it will be slower than it needs to be. It's not so much affording the luxury, as affording the basics.

TNP might be happy running gridwatch on a cheese-pared setup, but memory is really very cheap these days, so anybody doing this sort of thing for a living will do it properly - which for most servers means running in memory. (there are probably exceptions, I've just not hit them yet, but I do have a fairly wide experience of servers...)

[Bod]

[Clive George]

If you're doing this for a living and running something which needs 32GB of memory, 171 quid is cheap. You're neither doing it for a living nor do you need anything like that, so you think it's expensive.

You probably also think over 500 quid for a laptop is expensive :-)

(basic reasoning is pretty much that if you're doing it for a living, other costs will dwarf it, and if you need it you'll either be making rather more than that or saving enough time to make it worth it.)

Has TNP posted how much his gridwatch server has? For comparison, I think the cheapest lowest spec Azure VM is 3.5GB, and that will all be available as full speed memory if you use it.

[Bod]

My latest laptop cost £900.

[Clive George]

And you're claiming 171 quid for a significant upgrade isn't cheap?

[Bod]

It's subjective. I could've got a much cheaper i7 laptop for about £550.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Clive George escribió:

He's running it on a cheapo hosted setup via Paragon Internet.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Clive George escribió:

Memory prices have risen recently, and still are. Brexit (falling pound) isn't helping as it's traded in dollars.

[T i m]

I remember going though the calculations with the delegates for RAM for a Netware 3.12 Server. So much for each user, more for each .nlm and each namespace supported etc and then once you come up with the figure, probably fit 10x that because you could. ;-)

Cheers, T i m