Sometimes technology creeps up on you.

[Suff]

Like the transfer rate of this copy from my USB4 external NVME drive to my internal NVME drive on that machine.

This is beyond anything I have ever seen even on corporate systems. Although I'll admit that large systems running on this tech cost millions and you rarely see it.



I had bought a new external caddy as the old one was limited on speed and became so hot copying this file that it was uncomfortable to touch which kills these drives. The new one has a copper heatsink a thermal pad and a fan. It remained cool doing more than twice the speed.

Loooong gone are the days I had to spend $3m on hardware to increase the speed of the disk throughput on their nice new Y2K replacement machines from 20MB/s to 128MB/s. Granted the $3m was for the whole world and it is a big household name company.

[Workingman]

Or sometime you think: "You know what, my Win 11 machine with its 12GB RAM, 512GB SSD and USB3 interfaces can work a lot faster than I can so I'll let it get on witrh things and go make a cuppa."

You might have need for it, Suff, but as a retiree it would all be wasted on me.

However, yesterday I got a rechargeable portable 10" flatscreen TV with Freeview for the kitchen when I do cookathons. It also has DAB radio and SD / USB slots so I can watch films as well. I can bung it in the car on days out or camping.

That's about as far as my tech needs go nowadays.

[Suff]

Yes it is something to retire away from. Shortly after capturing this my second newest machine suffered a fatal and unrecoverable USB failure blocking out all the USB ports from higher speed traffic. It is a processor failure from what I read and has been threatening for at least a year now.

£900 spent on new hardware I'd have preferred not to buy. But the speed difference. Doubled in just over 2 years. I don't get the RAM till tomorrow and the Win10 key won't arrive till Friday but I'm keen to see how it goes.

I'm hoping that apart from the occasional RAM upgrades I won't have to buy much more hardware for at least a decade, maybe more.

The latest box has 96GB RAM. As does this one. The laptop has 64GB. They can all run multiple virtual machines and the two fastest can even run a 75billion parameter Llama AI instance.

Not that I spend loads of money constantly, I had my last 2 servers for well over a decade with only minor upgrades. One of the processors lost a core and it had to wait 5 years before I replaced it.

[Suff]

RAM arrived. Set up is in progress.

It is startlingly fast.

[Suff]

Talking to #3 son, he said "I'm surprised it was so slow".

I had to buy a new NVME card for this musical switcheraound. It is a bit money like water as the cascade of hard drives in my storage server are starting to fail (up to a decade old no surprise there, so I bought 48TB of drives for it), but since I'm buying new faster storage might as well test it to the limit right?



That is copying from it. It is about half that to copy to it.