True, but Optane would be a better option for scratch, even on an AMD platform. Wouldn't have to worry about drive wear, and... I'm not sure which would have hi

True, but Optane would be a better option for scratch, even on an AMD platform. Wouldn't have to worry about drive wear, and... I'm not sure which would have higher IOPS. With PCIe 4, it's possible the RAID0 NVMe drives would have better IOPS figures.