Tthats the issue
GThat explains it lol
KYeah that's your problem
BYep
Pwhere do i get a machine with CXL
KSee: steam deck
GYep, good example
Pit's okayish
Pi see people complaining about write blocking
Treading a reddit thread now about pros and cons
M
GI have a Lexar NM790 SSD in my desktop that's completely DRAM-less, but performs very well
BSo that's why I have worse performance when downloading games, huh
Pthe cache shouldn't be necessary over the coming decade though it's something we have solved at a platform level
Pit's just not really there yet compared to a real SSD
BIrrelevant now, since you mentioned HDD. Sorry man.
Pdepends
Psteam's very picky
Tyea its why the system requirements on the installation guide mentions SSD
Tostree will take hours to update on a HDD
Plike there's differences just between what filesystems are best because of the cache problem, this is really noticeable across different brands of SD card it seems
Tgot me to check if any of mine are dramless
Tthey arent
Psome people have their steam download speed completely shat on using CoW on cacheless / slow drives
GIt's very dependent on the hardware really
Pyeah cache doesn't automatically = good either
Pif it's slow or inadequate then it's worthless
Ti do know that steams download speed being shit isnt always due to the drive
GWhat matters is if a drive is fast and has benchmarks you're happy with
Tive had very shit speeds and intermittent buffering a year ago
BAnd this is why Fedora Silverblue is NOT an old pc-reviving distro
Phow fucking old is your PC
Tits for the future
T
Pi just
M:dinobones:
Pcant take it seriously anymore
Ppeople were rockin SSDs when i was in high school
Peven an old machine should have an SSD in it
P"old"
Pread: still worth using,,
B2015 macs had hard drives...
Htbh i was using hdd as the system drive until 2023 lol
GI mean yeah, basic SATA SSDs are stupidly cheap now
Pisn't that the year everyone got pissed off at apple
BExactly 
Hmy laptop came with one in 2015 and i just never bothered to replace it
and the desktop i built in 2022 just kinda
and the desktop i built in 2022 just kinda
Hended up with one cuz i was out of budget
Hlol
Phow
