Subj : Re: Old Iron
To   : Nightfox
From : Tracker1
Date : Thu Jan 21 2021 19:13:33

On 1/8/2021 9:27 AM, Nightfox wrote:
> 
> Recently I decided to buy a bigger SSD for my main desktop
> PC at home.  I had a Samsung EVO 860 500GB m.2 SSD in it, 
> and put in a 1TB m.2 SSD.  The 1TB SSD I bought is PCI 
> Express 4.0, though my motherboard only supports up to PCI
> Express 3.0.  I built my PC in 2019 - seems like technology
> is still changing fairly fast.

Well, it was pretty stagnant for the better part of 5 years or so.

Put together a Ryzen R9 3950X in October 2019 (actually a 3600 until I 
could get a 3950X), was already running nvme for a couple years before, 
and the difference from the machine before (i7-4790k, 5yo at the time) 
was night and day.

Hopefully I'll be able to get an RTX graphics card sometime this year, 
but not holding out much hope.  I did use part of my bonus this year to 
get a new NAS (DS1621+) with 4x 12TB drives (two empty slots to grow 
on).  My old one (12yo DS409) was really long in the tooth and slow to 
say the least.

Other than the GPU upgrade mentioned above, probably good for the next 5 
years or so.  I do regret going full RGB though.

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Michael J. Ryan
tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS
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