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Dual boot with expansion card (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys,

Just curious if someone has done it before and thoughts behind it. I’ve ordered a 16 with GPU and was wondering what’s the best way of setting up the system when it arrives.

My primary OS is Arch Linux and I prefer not to split the disk for windows. And I happen to see some folks might be booting an OS through an expansion card ( I got the 1TB ).

My windows usage is primarily Steam and nothing else. The expansion card seems fast enough to run an OS, but it doesn’t look as fast as an SSD or NVMe, so games like starfield might suffer some performance is my current guess. If my guess is right, does it mean it’s better to have some external SSD to use as storage?

What do you guys think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't use an expansion card as an OS-drive. But you could split your SSD into multiple partitions and dual boot off of it. On the other hand you could use the second SSD slot as well.

My best advice would be to make a really small Windows partition (only the OS plus a bit of storage for personal stuff) and use an expansion card as your game storage. That way you could use it on a different machine as well.