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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux 6.13.7
Date: 15 Mar 2025 02:01:43 GMT
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:14:17 +0000, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux>
wrote in <182cb7725b537f6d$32889$5317$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:46:43 +0000, vallor wrote:
> 
> 
>> And some people run sophisticated virtual reality simulations that need
>> access to more _fast_ disk space than will fit in RAM.
>> 
>> 
> Whoever does that would destroy the SSD before the sim is finished.

Not if the simulation is managed "in the cloud", with read-only
assets pulled off the NVMe drive.

> For such work a motherboard with 1Tb or 2Tb or RAM would be recommended,
> or even a cluster of such MBs.

Why don't you try it yourself and see?

>> You must be a piker.
>>
>>
> That's the term used by the crass instead of "efficiency expert."

Spinning rust drives are cheap, not "efficient".

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