I store all mine on slow drives because no matter where you load it, RAM or VRAM, it gets fully loaded and the original file is forgotten about. And it’s not like the read speed of huge files is terrible, even on a spinning disk. Even if you overload your RAM and swap to disk, you’ll still be using your designated pagefile/swap drive rather than your LLM files drive.
I store all mine on slow drives because no matter where you load it, RAM or VRAM, it gets fully loaded and the original file is forgotten about. And it’s not like the read speed of huge files is terrible, even on a spinning disk. Even if you overload your RAM and swap to disk, you’ll still be using your designated pagefile/swap drive rather than your LLM files drive.