Flash Drive for Programming?

[theereal]

So ive got an 14" inch M2 Pro that i use for software developement but i used the last bit of my budget to upgrade to 32GB of ram, so im stuck with a 512GB SSD. More and more projects are starting to clog up my drive, and i was looking into getting some external drive to store my projects on, note that i want to run the projects off this drive aswell and not have to transfer them to the internal drive every time im going to boot them up. Im always on the go and so i was hoping to make this external drive as small as possible, even a flash drive if at all possible. But the fastest flash drives i could find was 1000MB/s read/write sustained. I was wondering, would this be fast enough to run projects directly off the drive in programs like XCode or Android Studio? Or should i spring for an external SSD instead? What speeds should i be looking at then and are there any super small offerings? The tinier the better.

 

Thanks so much in advance

[Sjaakie]

Get an external 20 / 40 Gbs NVMe enclosure, slap in a fast SSD and you'll have a really fast and relatively small external ssd.