Post by @sobchak

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@eli@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

There are millions of devices that still and will continue to use SATA. My Synology NAS only accepts SATA. So if one of my SSDs dies I’m just shit out of luck and have to find a 8 bay M.2 NAS to have a comparable alternative? Your comment is beyond ridiculous

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@kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone on lemmy.blahaj.zone Open parent

Don’t use SSDs for a server… They make SATA M2 adapters Seriously are you putting sata SSDs in your NAS? Don’t…

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@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

There are plenty of reasons to put SSDs in a home server.

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@Gladaed__dup_10378@feddit.org on feddit.org Open parent

And most are wrong or unnecessary. What movie requires SSD performance?

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@sobchak@programming.dev on programming.dev Open parent

HDDs have horrible random access times, so if you need to process or just copy a lot of small files, say photos, there’s a significant penalty.

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@Gladaed__dup_10378@feddit.org on feddit.org Open parent

Ok, but what are they doing that moves loads of random files?

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@sobchak@programming.dev on programming.dev Open parent

Rsync, syncthing, backups, mp3s, photos, json files; idk, a lot of tasks involve large amounts of small files. I personally ran into this problem training models on millions of photos. My GPUs would only get up to 25% utilization with mirrored HDDs, so I had to switch to SSDs.

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@Gladaed__dup_10378@feddit.org on feddit.org Open parent

Why are you doing that on a network storage as opposed to on device?

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sobchak in !technology

@sobchak@programming.dev · Dec 16

Not enough room in the GPU machine for all the HDDs I needed. Also who got millions of photos at home? People working on biological datasets.

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