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What SATA (or PCIe+adapter) SSD for a Debian laptop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by solrize@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Basically want something with decent performance and durability. Cost matters, but I'm not trying to hit rock bottom. I'm particularly wondering, is an HMB-type PCIe SSD ok combined with a SATA adapter? I think HMB is supported if your machine can use a PCIe or NVMe disk directly, but I'd be using an older Thinkpad with a 2.5" SATA slot at least for now. So I'm wondering if I'd lose a lot of performance if the SSD combo doesn't have its own RAM buffer.

I see good deals by today's standards for PCIe SSD's at of all places, Office Depot.

Thanks.

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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 1 points 1 day ago

@solrize Well it could be worse, I still have an old Dell Inspiron with it's original 2.5" 3600 RPM ultra-slow hard drive. Now that the battery has finally given up the ghost, I am going to replace it with an SSD while I have it open to change out the battery, but because the nvme slot on this machine only supports a max of 500GB, I am going with SATA.