Yeah, I may have gone a bit far afield to try to point out that it can be done. It’s not going to be for everyone, and maybe it would be too slow for you.
It was fun to think about, and I enjoyed the friendly conversation.
Don’t get me wrong: the idea is super appealing, and the technology has gotten good enough it’s practical - i absolutely agree about that. I was only saying that there’d be a noticeable difference in performance of you’re used to M.2 NVMe.
I think a bigger concern is trusting other people’s hardware. It’s getting increasingly fraught, with key loggers and such; I’m not sure how much I’d trust my (digital) life to a random computer - and then there’s the issue of secure boot, and needing computers that have either unprotected BIOS menus or which are already configured to boot first from USB (which is IME an increasingly rare default configuration).
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Yeah, I may have gone a bit far afield to try to point out that it can be done. It’s not going to be for everyone, and maybe it would be too slow for you.
It was fun to think about, and I enjoyed the friendly conversation.
Don’t get me wrong: the idea is super appealing, and the technology has gotten good enough it’s practical - i absolutely agree about that. I was only saying that there’d be a noticeable difference in performance of you’re used to M.2 NVMe.
I think a bigger concern is trusting other people’s hardware. It’s getting increasingly fraught, with key loggers and such; I’m not sure how much I’d trust my (digital) life to a random computer - and then there’s the issue of secure boot, and needing computers that have either unprotected BIOS menus or which are already configured to boot first from USB (which is IME an increasingly rare default configuration).