External Drive for Playing Steam Games?
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:25 pm
Sometime back I built my own PC (first time) and everything is grand, but I'm starting to run out of SSD drive space. I have to keep uninstalling games to make room.
In the course of building the machine, the only mistake I made was in first plugging in that SSD drive. The angle was tough, and I bent and ruined one of the prongs on the motherboard-to-drive connection, but there was still another one on the motherboard, so I used that. Unfortunately, this means I now don't have a spare connection available for installing another SSD directly to the motherboard.
My storage problems would be over if I just put Steam and its games on a new drive, but that drive (due to my above-mentioned screwup) would have to be external.
My question: would running Steam-installed games from an external drive be as fast and seamless as from an internal drive? Is a USB connection good enough for that?
Second question: if so, can anyone recommend a good drive or make of drive for this purpose? (I assume SSD is faster than HDD for this.)
Thanks for any advice!
In the course of building the machine, the only mistake I made was in first plugging in that SSD drive. The angle was tough, and I bent and ruined one of the prongs on the motherboard-to-drive connection, but there was still another one on the motherboard, so I used that. Unfortunately, this means I now don't have a spare connection available for installing another SSD directly to the motherboard.
My storage problems would be over if I just put Steam and its games on a new drive, but that drive (due to my above-mentioned screwup) would have to be external.
My question: would running Steam-installed games from an external drive be as fast and seamless as from an internal drive? Is a USB connection good enough for that?
Second question: if so, can anyone recommend a good drive or make of drive for this purpose? (I assume SSD is faster than HDD for this.)
Thanks for any advice!