870 EVO

I think the 870 Evo is 2.5" sata drive, tops at abt 550MB/s. But still fucking expensive than an nvme of the same capacity. 😖

Ext4 is faster. Maybe, maybe not, as usual "it depends". There are those who specifically seek out ZFS for its performance advantages in certain workloads and hardware configurations that Ext4 just cannot do. https://www.saturnme.com/zfs-vs-ext4-a-comprehensive-comparison/ This is not a fair compari

Thanks so much for replying. I prefer the performance of SSD too. But the price of SSDs has exploded recently. For example, on Amazon In February 2026, the Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD price fluctuated between $103.99 and $179.99. The current price is $449.99. The Seagate 1 TB surveillance rated HDD can

Before giving up on those cards, you should consider re-pasting the heatsinks. I still have a 1080ti chugging away that needed re-pasting a few years back. As far as the Threadripper bottlenecking, you could just get the card an see what happens. Usually, once everything is shoved to your GPU there

Not trying to be that guy, but this post aged like milk. Microcenter is currently selling only one SATA SSD model: https://www.microcenter.com/product/709397/samsung-870-evo-8tb-ssd-tlc-v-nand-sata-iii-6gb-s-25-internal-solid-state-drive 8TB $4139.995-7 days to ship. These use the same components as