No, it is an nvme stick. It has 2 partitions, one is ntfs, one is ext4. This particular one is the ext4 one. I use this for gaming. Ihave not tried to install it in Home, I do not have enough space on the OS ssd for games. Also, all my drives are mounted in media, HDDs, ssds, nvme, etc. One last thing, after my post earlier I have tried a third game I had the install kit for, Warhammer online - RoR and it, too, runs pretty much perfect. Some minor artifacts in the launcher graphics but smooth sailing after getting past the login screen. There must be something in gw2 that my pc really dislikes. Runs fine on laptop, with latest LTS ubuntu. Laptop is intel/nvidia combo, some 8th gen i7, 1050ti 16gigs of ram, not stellar by any means but runs gw fine.