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I haven't kept tabs on modern PCIe / NVMe, but I was figuring transfer would be DMA blasted w/o CPU interaction. Any idea why the Celerons gunked up so badly?

• justsomehnguy 4y ago
  If you are talking about Celerons in my comment then it was SATA drives. But Celerons are shit anyway, couple of weeks ago I replaced a HDD with SSD on Acer Aspire ES1-533 with Celeron N3350 [1], with a fresh Win10 install. It was slow with the original WD Blue, with SSD it just started to slow faster. Still seconds to open menus and overall a very poor performance, despite the whopping 2Mb cache. I have ThinkPad x301 lying somewhere, with a SU9400 Core 2 Duo and 1.8" SSD. Last time I used it (with Win10, too) it performed better than that Acer with Celeron. X301 is from 2008, ES1-533 is from 2016. Intel learned from Mendocino/Coppermine 'fiasco' and since that Celerons never performed well. Obligatory bash.org quote [1] [0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/95598/intel-celeron-processor-n3350-2m-cache-up-to-2-40-ghz.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/95598/i... [1] http://bash.org/?769729 http://bash.org/?769729