ostree will take hours to update on a HDD
ostree will take hours to update on a HDD
Plike there's differences just between what filesystems are best because of the cache problem, this is really noticeable across different brands of SD card it seems
Tgot me to check if any of mine are dramless
Tthey arent
Psome people have their steam download speed completely shat on using CoW on cacheless / slow drives
GIt's very dependent on the hardware really
Pyeah cache doesn't automatically = good either
Pif it's slow or inadequate then it's worthless
Ti do know that steams download speed being shit isnt always due to the drive
GWhat matters is if a drive is fast and has benchmarks you're happy with
Tive had very shit speeds and intermittent buffering a year ago
BAnd this is why Fedora Silverblue is NOT an old pc-reviving distro
Phow fucking old is your PC
Tits for the future
T
Pi just
M:dinobones:
Pcant take it seriously anymore
Ppeople were rockin SSDs when i was in high school
Peven an old machine should have an SSD in it
P"old"
Pread: still worth using,,
B2015 macs had hard drives...
Htbh i was using hdd as the system drive until 2023 lol
GI mean yeah, basic SATA SSDs are stupidly cheap now
Pisn't that the year everyone got pissed off at apple
BExactly 
Hmy laptop came with one in 2015 and i just never bothered to replace it
and the desktop i built in 2022 just kinda
and the desktop i built in 2022 just kinda
Hended up with one cuz i was out of budget
Hlol
Phow
Ptheyre pretty much comparable in price
Hi built it right in the middle of the crypto craze
BHorrible budgeting and/or decision making skills
Hand chia ramped up the prices for ssds liked
Aidk in the western country, but here sata and nvme ssd cost are basically within 10% of each other lol
Hto the sky
BA 512gig is like 50 bucks
Hlol
Psata drives pretty much all cost the same lol
GDoes depend on your location to an extent yeah
Pdoesn't matter if it's hdd or ssd
Pthey are cheap as shit
Peconomy of scale took over for SSDs a long time ago
BI built my PC in 2020...
H¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pi built my pc when i was 7 years old and just keep peeling its face off for new machines to wear
BA mid wd dram-less nvme SSD cost me 50 bucks
BAnd even THAT is light years better than an HDD
Peven if it's only sata lol
BIt was nvme
