• Ulrich
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    314 days ago

    especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap

    These won’t be fast, as detailed in the OP:

    Since Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors only have 9 PCIe lanes which have to be shared between the SSDs and other hardware, the M.2 slots include five PCIe 3.0 single-lane connections, and one PCIe 3.0 x2 connection

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      414 days ago

      PCIe 3.0 is 1 GB/s per lane. So nothing life changing, but still reasonably fast (way faster a HDD). If you rarely need swap, you should be fine for the few times you do.