First build in a hot minute, any suggestions? (startrek.website)

submitted 5 months ago by swab148@startrek.website to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

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I'll be using it mostly for gaming, possibly self-hosting various things as I think about them. I'd like it to be mildly future-proof, but I'd also like to cut the price down a bit. Right now it's going to cost basically my whole tax refund, and if possible, I'd like to save some of it to further my education.

I'll be using Linux (don't know what distro yet, but that's another post for another /c/), hence the all-AMD build.

Thanks in advance!

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[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not entirely sure why you went with 2 1TB NVMe drives.

I have two NVMe drives plus a slow HDD in my gaming PC so I can keep my games on fast storage without having to reinstall them whenever I install a new distro. I know I could have accomplished this with separate partitions, but every installer is a little different and I just cannot be arsed to re-learn how to do it every time. I sprung for the extra 1 TB stick ($50 or so), and now I don’t have to spend hours googling and watching youtube tutorials whenever I want to install a new distro—I just let the installers blow away the entire OS drive and do their thing.

[-] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I can see your use case, I'm pretty familiar with with partitioning though, plus I'm not a big distro-hopper. I can always upgrade later!

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