Scholars_Mate

@Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please recommend your cheaper, reliable SSDs 2TB+ (4TB ideal)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • SLC -> Single-Level Cell, i.e. 1 bit per cell
  • MLC -> Multi-Level Cell, i.e. 2 bits per cell
  • TLC -> Triple-Level Cell, i.e. 3 bits per cell
  • QLC -> Quad-Level Cell, i.e. 4 bits per cell

  The more bits per cell you store, the more dense and therefore cheaper your flash chips can be for a give capacity. The downside is that it is slower and less reliable since you have to be able to write and read exponentially more voltage states per cell, e.g. 2 states for SLC, 4 states for MLC, 8 states for TLC, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Trine series is pretty fun. It’s a 2.5d puzzle platformer game. There are some combat bits, but most of the game is puzzles. I’d recommend the second one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Raspberry Pi 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  USB 2 is 480 Mb/s, not 480 MB/s. 480 Mb/s is 60 MB/s, so the 500 MB/s from PCIe 2.0 x 1 is quite a bit faster and is about the limit of what a SATA 3 interface could do. Also, sequential throughput isn’t nearly as important as most people think. Random IO, which NVMe drives excel at will make a far more noticeable impact on real world performance.