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    Do games run fine when installed on an external USB 3 drive?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Punchdrunk, Jun 29, 2016.

  1. Punchdrunk

    Punchdrunk Notebook Consultant

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    and would it be worth putting a budget SSD in that external enclosure, rather than a SATA drive? Or does the usb bandwidth bottleneck it anyway?
     
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  2. TBoneSan

    TBoneSan Laptop Fiend

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    Games would run ok. I wouldn't bother with a SSD though. You'd have improved random read/writes but would be bottlenecked massively on the sequential read/writes Just stick to spinners.
     
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  4. hfm

    hfm Notebook Prophet

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    SSD would help if it's usb3+ the throughput is high.

    Sent from a 128th Legion Stormtrooper 6P
     
    hfm, Jun 29, 2016
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