Ok, so I have a weird setup, but if I could get this shit to work, it would be crazy.

First off, I have one of these

The neat thing about that is, your hard drive can be ejected very easily. And a new one inserted. It also has a spot for a slave drive that can do the same thing.

Right now, I’m using ZorinOS as my daily driver. I don’t know how exactly I became a Linux user, but, I guess at this point I’ve been using it daily since the week of Christmas 2024. Which was like 6 months ago now.

Anyways, self realizations aside, I have an idea. I’ve installed Lutris on this install, and I have run out of room for my games. I also have an 8TB hard drive I’m not using.

My plan is to use the 8TB hard drive to do nothing but install games to. Then have Lutris look for the games on the slave drive. Now here’s where it gets interesting.

What if that 8tb drive gets filled too? Well, I could buy a SECOND 8TB drive!

What if I install Game 1, Game 2, and Game 3 on SSDSlave1 and then I install Game 4, Game 5 and Game 6 on SSDSlave2.

So now, I’m playing Game 2. But I want to play game 6. So I just turn off the PC, swap slave drives, and turn it back on. And now, it’s ready for me.

Oh, but we’re not done yet.

I’m using SSDMain1 with ZorinOS with Lutris installed. What if I swapped hard drives to SSDMain2 with Mint with Lutris installed? Then whichever hard drive is inserted is what dictates what games I can play. Like an old school NES except now for modern systems.

So, recap. Slot 1 should be able to swap between OS’s,

And slot 2 would be able to swap between games.

With any combination working, since they’d both have Lutris installed.

Is that possible?

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Welcome to the 90’s,when this was a thing.

    You can do this, but why not just mount the drive inside the case? Usually there’s plenty of connections, with space being the concern. I’ve mounted drives with a single screw to places they clearly don’t belong.

    By the time you fill one drive most likely the next gen of drives will be out with a lower cost per TB anyway and you could just move all to that.