Progress!

Time for me to get dragged kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat¹.

I have purchased my first SSD⁴.

I will spend a pleasant evening unwrapping and installing this thing. And consequently reinstalling all my operating systems.

Specifications
Brand	Samsung
Type	SSD 860 EVO
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s Interface, compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s & SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface
Capacity	500 GB (1 GB=1 Billion byte by IDEMA)
Sequential Read Speed	Up to 550 MB/s
Sequential Write Speed	Up to 520 MB/s
Controller	Samsung MJX Controller
NAND Flash	Samsung V-NAND 3bit MLC
Cache Memory	Samsung 512 MB Low Power DDR4 SDRAM
AES Encryption	AES 256-bit Encryption (Class 0)TCG/Opal IEEE1667 (Encrypted drive)
GC (Garbage Collection)	Auto Garbage Collection Algorithm
Internal Storage	Yes
Form Factor	2.5" SATA III
Reliability (MTBF)	1.5 Million Hours Reliability (MTBF)

Of course, my colleagues wouldn't be my colleagues if they didn't mention that you can get much better deals for much less money per megabyte³. Four terabytes in one package. Sheesh.

References

[1] LSpace Wiki - Century of the Fruitbat

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Century_of_the_Fruitbat

[2] Samsung SSD 860 EVO Specifications

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-860-evo-2-5--sata-iii-500gb-mz-76e500b-am/

[3] Tweakers - Origin Storage DELL-4TBNLSA/7-F17 4TB

https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1183219/origin-storage-dell-4tbnlsa-7-f17-4tb.html

[4] Wikipedia - Solid-state drive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive