I never said that I dislike NVMe SSDs. What I said was that "I personally don't recommend them for boot disks unless absolutely required".Why the dislike of NVMe SSD? I am very enthused with them since with the readily available NVMe HATs or BASEs you can get easily packaged fast/large storage in one compact package, with no messy cables and USB/SATA adaptors.As KeithMck mentioned, use the fastest possible disk you can afford. I typically use USB SSD drives, but I've found that for many applications a fast MicroSD, such as a Sandisk Extreme Pro, are sufficiently fast.
If you need blindingly fast drives, look at NVME, but I personally don't recommend them for boot disks unless absolutely required.
I don't yet have the runtime that I have with Kingston A400 series SSDs but I have encountered no issues so far.
Why?
Because when Trixie comes out there will be SO many people unhappy that they can't upgrade their NVMe disks in place. Yes, it can be made to work, but you and I have both seen many posts from people following upgrade procedures and getting bolluxed.
For me, even if upgrades were supported, and (gasp) even encouraged by RPL, I would do fresh installs. I have a NUC-10 running Debian, with the system disk on an NVMe, and every time there's a new release I do a fresh install.
It's SO much cleaner that way. Who wants to be the guinea pig finding the edge condition embodied in my particular system disk that didn't upgrade correctly?
That said, I do agree there are situations where having an NVMe system disk is super-convenient (for system compactness/portability/etc) or needed to meet high-end performance requirements.
That's what I meant by "...absolutely required".
And, for the record, besides my Debian 12 NUC-10, I have NVMe drives on my "test" Pi5 and my "workstation" Pi5. Both are Geekworm X1001 boards with Kingston NV2 SSDs, and they work great. Neither are used for system disks. Of course I tested it as a system disk, and found it to be no faster than a USB Kingston A400 SSD for MY typical workloads.
Statistics: Posted by bls — Wed Jul 31, 2024 4:57 pm
