I got wind of the fact that a leapfrog in SSD technology is planned as another stopgap for the memory wall problem. Problem.
I am redesignating my home office as my POE; Personal Operations Environment; all computer equipment is on a rolling cart. I believe in seamless operations, and operations center. I am upscaling to discover more retirement opportunities. I buy everything second hand because that is who I am. I 100% have recycled my entire life. I am not a gamer.
I recently purchased a Lenovo M93 Tower, which fortunately was manufactured in Mexico. I bought it off Office Depot. Everything arrived about the same time, I started assembling. I also purchased a Nividia GPU 1600, because I am looking into VR and multimedia. I assembled before my first boot. After verifying the system did power on.
My plan all along was to clone my Fedora Linux laptop, cause I had a lot of good work in it. I received my second-hand 1 TiB Toshiba HDD at about the same time. So, I prepared the clone – got everything lined up just so. Then I decided to boot into Windows first (came with M93), you know setting up benchmarks to troubleshoot any failure. Attempted to boot Windows, GPU installed. Erratic is the exact word to describe my screen failure, flickering and such. Noted. I am not trouble shooting this because Windows is not my destination. When I went to switch the HDD’s, I realized it was an SSD. (Would probably agree with advertisement. After I saw 256 GB, it had to be replaced either way). I swapped the SSD for the cloned HDD, booted – problem solved. Once again God saved me from myself.
A hard drive has “Spinning magnetic platters + moving read/write head.”
A solid-state drive has “Flash memory (no moving parts)“.
The Artificial Intelligence memory wall problem is caused by the inability to move data from the execute layer (memory) to the data location, and back again fast enough to keep up with the advances in processing and memory speed.
Creating intelligent devices with advanced technology, which all resides in memory – is a fool’s errand. You should expect unpredictable hardware problems. The motherboard expects a hard drive.
I purchased a Toshiba HDD because the brand is very reliable. However, I purchased a hdd over the advanced ssd because of cost. Once again God saved me from myself – I do not have the skills to troubleshoot that problem. My entire install to include VIVE 2 Pro that I will learn once I get all the parts. It would have all failed because of the SSD.
The direct statement I am making is that Solid state drives should not be used as system drives. A system without a hard drive might work, but that would not be by effective design. The memory wall problem goes from bad, to triple bad.
[once I got into my long-term memory, I realized that the memory wall is a cousin to the bottleneck problem we had back in the day. a bottleneck is what happens if all users push transmit at the same time. And you had to be careful; some programmers could code around it. Some could not. That was back when Internet Banking was by modem. However, the concept crossed over. You could still get bottlenecks where no modem was involved. That was over 20 years ago. I was looking for improved bus rates back then, but nobody was having the conversation]