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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You raise an excellent point.

TBH I am both lazy, and a bit paranoid/afraid of dealing with Nvidia rendering issues (even if using my IGP for desktop work), but it would probably be fine and I'm... just being lazy and paranoid.

I don't think it would make it worse for compute work.

An external 3rd partition does sound appealing, though one quirk is that CP2077 does really like SSDs. I have a slow external SSD, but it still might muddy an A/B test.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If you have a desktop, these work great for swapping SSDs out. Get a pair and swap them out whenever you need/want to. You just need a spare x4 (or larger) PCI-e slot, which is pretty common to have. (Technically they work fine with a x1 slot, but then you are slowing the SSD down.)

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I’ve got an ITX mini PC with both nvme and the graphics slot filled, heh.