Question Do SSD External Drives make as big of a difference for Games as Internal?
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"Do SSD External Drives make as big of a difference for Games as Internal?"
No.
The only thing an SSD does for games is reduce the level load time.
Going through the USB interface is much slower than an internal drive.
What size/make/model is this $33 dollar thing?
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Oh the size I think was 60GB.
wish i could find it...hmm maybe the price went up so the search can't find it? I doubt its "junk" i mean 33 dollars for a 1.0 isn't THAT bad LMAO.
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i totally get you, i just honestly only remember 3.0 and 60GB...and like i said i really cannot find it again
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A crap 60GB external SSD may be no faster than a 500GB external HDD, for the same cost.
just sayin'
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I would never buy an external ssd. Instead buy something like 860 EVO SATA and use your own external enclosure. You can do the same for NVME M2 SSD as well
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easy easy, it was just a question
Nobody's trying to be mean. Being mean would be just giving you the thumbs-up to pointlessly spend money.
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1TB ssd's are expensive but the ones under a terabyte aren't, I bought a new sealed 240GB kingston A400 SSD in August for $35 USD on Ebay to put in a CECHG-01 fat PS3, the drive still works fine (all my games are physical I don't buy digital games or DLC on consoles I use the system every day and the games I play are GTA 4 [story mode, both DLC's off the episodes from liberty city disc and multiplayer], GTA 5, GTA online, Skyrim, Fallout new Vegas ultimate edition, Watchdogs and sleeping dogs).
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Actually, USB 3.0 is pretty much as fast as you need for a decent SSD.
You get around 500MB/sec out of it, which, sure, isn’t the 2000MB/sec+ that you get out of a modern NVMe drive, but considering that we were all happily on 400-500mb/sec SATA-3 drives as little as 4 years ago, it’s certainly not bad.
Most games load in the same amount of time from a SATA-3 drive as they do from NVMe anyway, so you would probably not see much difference between internal and external in this case.
The real big differences between SSD and spinning rust plates are the 0ms seek times and IOPS rate. Those are going to be roughly the same on NVMe, SATA-3 or USB 3.
That said, a 60GB drive for $33 is a bad deal and you should not buy that.
You get around 500MB/sec out of it, which, sure, isn’t the 2000MB/sec+ that you get out of a modern NVMe drive, but considering that we were all happily on 400-500mb/sec SATA-3 drives as little as 4 years ago, it’s certainly not bad.
Most games load in the same amount of time from a SATA-3 drive as they do from NVMe anyway, so you would probably not see much difference between internal and external in this case.
The real big differences between SSD and spinning rust plates are the 0ms seek times and IOPS rate. Those are going to be roughly the same on NVMe, SATA-3 or USB 3.
That said, a 60GB drive for $33 is a bad deal and you should not buy that.
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