Gaming on an External Drive WITHOUT Slowdowns!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- It used to be that internal drives were the only real solution for quick access to your gaming library. However, wth the advent of USB 3.1 Gen 2 we got to wondering: is it FINALLY possible to put your games on a portable drive without sacrificing load times, latency and responsiveness?
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These USB SSDs are faster than my old internal SSD lol
same
Jarrod'sTech my gen1 80GB intel SSD is in this pool of slow SSDs.
I don’t have a SSD
does this mean you don't need an internal hard drive
Jarrod'sTech same
In a perfect world i'd see a 2tb ssd and a 1070 in a portable formfactor that you can attatch to any pc and turn it into a gaming rig at any moment lol
joris yauw You just need a thunderbolt 3 connector and a usb 3.1 gen 2
@Tassafonti thank you for saying that, I almost ruined it
Mantiz Venus is the closest thing to that. Can put in any full sized GPU in it, 2.5 SSD, and a bunch of extra USB ports
@@Cypress229 Stop flexin homie
I wish...
One thing to keep in mind though is that flash drives or external SSDs usualy use cheap TLC which has poor endurance since they are meant to just dump files and then mostly read from it. If you only install the games and run them, then it should be fine, but if you are constantly updating the files because of game updates and such, then those excessive writes will wear the drive faster than it was designed for. Not a huge problem but still something to consider.
i used to do this back in middle school with a regular usb stick around 2005/2006 with halo. would bring it to school and play on the computers there. the good ole days
do you need to install or something or is it just plug and play?
@@ege8240 Some games will work only on one pc like gta 5 so you have install another copy while other games will work on any pc like gta san andreas.
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Hey guys, I've been searching for external SSD or HDD for gaming. Each time I do this kind of research, this video always comes up first. Even if it's 3 years old, I think it's still relevant. I suppose asking for those links in the descriptions you talked about would be unreasonnable because everthing must be out of date. I was also searching for external HDD becasue they are cheaper, but I'm reluctent because this days I don't see their RPM speed anywhere... So I am more inclined to go for SSD. Do you think your going to remake another video like in the futur?
You can buy a Segate Baracuda HDD(I hope I didn't get that name wrong) since it provides a awesome value for the price and to be honest you don't really need to spend almost double the money on a ssd just to load a game 10/20 sec faster. I d say that for general use hdd's are still great options.
@@adrianstanea6236 thank you for your input!
@@adrianstanea6236 does an external hdd with its own power source be any factor for gaming in terms of the life of the drive?
@@adrianstanea6236 what external hdd should I buy to play League of legends and valorant? I'm thinking to buy external hdd than a 2.5inch hdd for my laptop because in my country acer don't let us upgrade our own laptop or it will void the warranty. Is my idea "playing lol and valorant stored in an externall hdd" a problem solver? What external is the best for me? Of course cheap is cool
@@fritzmass5997 same, I've been looking for an external hard drive
i played csgo on an sd card for a month kek
Tony Zhuravlev how was it? Did you experience any significant performance drops?
He didn't answer jesus
I played Mario on a toaster.... once
Jesus I played Xbox one games on a usb 3.0 external hard drive and it ran perfect
Curious how it lines up with a cheap m.2 nvme drive. Something faster than SATA but not the fastest.
neat!
After two years am the only one ☝️ to like your comment lol
3rd like
As a review, having games on an external drive is so useful! And an SSD is definitely work it for an external games drive.
Could you recommend me an external ssd? I need a decent size for steam games.
[Deleted] Samsung , sandisk
will leave a link down below
goes to discription
no link :-(
Fixed!
good, thanks
Err... Sorry but no it isn't. There's a link to the other video, links to the gear you use, but no link to the SSD :( You're teasin' us man! ;)
yes that's right also
Wheres the links man
I just bought a sandisk 500gb SSD external USB type C and I tried playing heavy games from it. It works great!
1:28 *Infinity Ward:* hold my beer
That SSD looks like a Merci Chocolate Bar. Seriously, check it out.
I use a WD HDD 1TB for a boot drive and keep it below 50% full to it is faster. I use a 3 TB HDD Barricuda which test much faster (user bench mark) for my games. According to your tests an SSD will not help enough to spend extra money.
I already had the 1TB WD in the rig and added the 3 TB which is why the OS is on the WD.
Love SSDs but I need at least 2T and the price is insane vs a HD
What about a 2.5 SSD with a 2.5 enclosure? Not sure if it's compatible though.
Jazz Tahil This is what I would do. USB 3 enclosures are cheap ($25) and pick whatever size SSD drive that makes sense for you.
It's what I did. Well, almost. I had a 2.52 1TB HDD in my laptop which I upgraded to a 2.5" 500GB SSD and I bought a 2.5" USB 3.0 external case for an internal drive so now I'm using the HDD as an external HDD and all the games are there. It works.
No, and it's actually connected to an USB hub.
Cat 17091 2.5" drives don't usually need the extra power adapter. USB should supply more then enough amps. But a 3.5" drive would need a power adapter.
That what i was thinking of doing. You can do it for relatively low budget. A basic 2.5 enclosure with UASP support goes for as little as 10$ and i even saw a used 1tb ssd for about 170$. All together with shipping would fall under 200$. Pretty good deal if you ask me. Or if you want even faster speeds you can go all out and use a 1tb m.2 with external enclosure for under 400$
But... does it blend sir?
Did you mean: "Does it Djent?"?
1:18 wow time has change a lot, these days 8TB cost 144$ instead of that amount
at 2:44 what you disabled are not background applications. rather they are start up applications. they launch as soon as you turn on the pc. you just disabled them at launch thats it. they can launch themselves after some time though
I really think USB is going be the answer for portable computers in the future. Playing games on a handheld computer could use say a 256 gb USB drive to hold a good deal of games. If it fills buy another and just swap to the one you need. I think it should work just fine. Be almost like playing on cartridges again lol.
Dose External Drive lose its lifespan by playing games on it ?
What about using the 3.5" and 2.5" drives externally connected to a USB port? Would there be a difference between them being used externally and internally?
Drive speeds do effect FPS in some games. Arma, Dayz, PUBG ect. Mostly it appears as stuttering.
I play off a Western Digital External 2.5" HDD and i have no issues playing any game
CallMeRabbitzUSVI me too got a external 4tb HDD for 89.99 for gaming I can’t complain
Same, only game I have issues with off the external HDD are Witcher 3, when choosing a dialogue option and the next scene kicking in, I get about a 2 second loading wheel, then then next bit kicks in. So I generally try to put dialogue heavy games like W3 on my internal drive
The reason the eternal HDD might be slower is that the internal WD drive spins at 7200rpm where as external drive spins at 5400rpm,
Do you play a game like gta 5 on your external hard drive?
I have WD My Passport 2TB. I downloaded all my favorite games. Nothing slow, laggy, So smooth and play well!! I love it!
HDD I'm guessing? Glad to hear it's running smooth I'm thinking of getting a WD passport 1TB HDD for all the games on my laptop as it only has a 512SSD built into it. And I need the space on the laptop for uni work etc.
Do you think it would be a good investment?
But HOW do I get the game on to the hard drive!!!??? I am so confusedddd
Do you know it already now? Depending on what you use you can make a second "library" just select the location you want it on. You still need to plug in the SSD ofcourse. But in steam there is a function for it. Not sure about the other ones.
@@wu1ming9shi No there isn't.
I need more space and I want to use an external ssd for it so if anything happens to my laptop ill still have my space, mostly for games tho, but ya know I just need more space
I have a gaming laptop with limited storage capacity. I was going to add another internal hard drive to it until I came across this video, and thank god I did, for it saved me a lot of time (taking apart my laptop is complicated). I have had a bad history with external hard drives, but modern external SSDs coupled with USB3 seems good enough. I’m now running off a Samsung T5 for some of the games I cannot fit off my internal SSD, and it seems to be working just fine.
have you faced any heating problem? how its performance now?
@@db-jn6gi This was two years ago, and I’ve since moved everything to my home built desktop. I still have my SSD though. Never encountered heating problems and it still works fine.
@@andyyiu3987 thank you
I was happy when I saw you testing my WD 1TB SSD Passport External. I love it.
Great vid.
So?
is there any problem with the hardware temperature? i'm just curious to know
Surprisingly didn't experience heating with all 4 drives :)
nice! thanks for the info
when installing the games, do you just install them directly on the SSD, or do you install it on the internal SSD/HDD and move the library?
No
You can do both
Also keep in mind not everyone has a USB 3.1 port so if they were to buy it they might not even benefit the full speed potential
Is USB 3.1 and 3.0 technically the same?
Dedric Silva I think so
@@DedricSilva no
What would usb c compare to usb 3.0?
Rubbish
I absolutely love hearing how u discuss this subject. Very informative and very well spoken. And great quality on a very simple video.
I've been gaming on a Samsung S2 Portable (40MB/s rw) back then and GTA V ran well.
I play games off of a Samsung M3 1TB (I believe these are now marketed by Maxtor?), never felt a difference over internal HDDs
I think you're missing a really big point. Saving money.
E.g. I'd love to have the 15" Surface Book 2 with the GTX 1060 since I could use it for work, entertainment and gaming, all in one device. But the difference between the 250 GB and the 1 TB version is 900 €.
With an external SSD I could get the 250 or 500 GB model, install all Word, Visual Studio, Android Studio etc. on it and use the external SSD to expand the storage for the huge games.
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Hey bro I'm doing my homework on what to buy to game on my surface book 2.
I''m a gears head so all I'll play is multiplayer gears 4 and..... of course I'm waiting for gears 5.
Would you recommend even gaming on my surface book 2? I'm a console gamer trying to make the switch.
Any help in 2019 would be much appreciated ✌
I have a question, I'm going to get this SSD soon because I do indeed game at multiple different locations and having a portable device is fantastic. I am wondering if the speed will be affected by whether I have Steam downloaded onto the WD My Passport SSD or the HDD of the PC. In other words, can I have steam on my desktop and some games installed on the SSD and still be able to grab the advantage?
Tatsuro Kajioka Hey I had the same idea also have the same question
These are unexpected results considering usb 3.0 is 5 GB/s way higher than any ssd drive, the ssds are only 500MB/s and the hdds are a measly 100~MB/s I thought it would be equally slow across the board with the ssds and the hdd would be left completely in the dust. But the sdd load is tolerable and the hdd still kept up pretty close and only struggled with Doom. I guess its on a per game basis, and I guess it would just be a game of testing which ones load fine from a external hdd. And decide from there if the load times are outrageous on external then just leave that game to internal storage, but if it loads at a good speed then keep it on the external drive. If the games are perfectly playable from external anything, then it really doesnt matter what external drive is used. This is great news. Also you didnt mention what kind of storage was in the test system. Im assuming an ssd? I think having an internal hdd system would slow the loading times as well.
Interesting video, good job on all the testing, must have taken a while :P
Would it be Better & FASTER on Samsung T5 ?
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I will be getting a Surfave Book 2 15"
Thumbs up for that WD Blue 1TB EZEX drive. I have it and it's an amazing drive and very cheap!
Your videos are really well thought of. Thank you bro.
Would I still be able to get reasonable speeds with USB 3.1 Gen 1? And would using a Thunderbolt port be possible/ better?
I'm really glad we have cheap M.2 drives and Thunderbolt now.
Why is he saying the WD External is expensive? I just looked it up on Amazon. Those drives are about $55 for 1TB.
I just hate how loud most hard drives are
They aren't loud at all now a days
yeah my system fans are louder than my mechanical drives most the time. Over the hum of the fans I only rarely hear the drives make searching sounds. I never hear anything that sounds like them spinning up or down.
Well i don't know how to change the internal hdd so i'm going for this one. So is it good for gaming?
So I have a 2tb external hard drive and when I install games on my windows my internet keeps crashing, why is that it's hard to install games.
so, means playing with portable SSD does not have any problem with it right?
Why not just install in the internal hard drive? Why game with external drive?
I just bought a Samsung T5 SSD. I love in a really weird spot that no internet provider will run to but my cellphone service is fantastic so I use hotspot for gaming and all mh internet needs, problem is this comes with data caps, and not very high ones. Now I can download games at work or a friends house and simply play them off my T5 on my home computer without eating my limited high speed.
What about m.2 drives and what about testing games that are known to be frequently loading things such as the total war series?
I can't find the link to the actual drive, there is only a link to the other video in the description.
0:22 agree. Dimitry is such a luxury.
Why would you not install Steam, Origin, etc. on the C:/ drive and have just the games on the D:/ drive? It'll load faster if you have Steam on the boot drive, then point Steam to the other drive to read the games.
I was thinking about buying another SSD for my laptop, but I guess this is it. I work with 3D modelling and texturing and that needs a fast drive, and this seems a lot better than using an external drive or buying another SSD that will run out of space very quickly.
shouldn't you compare start up speed to internal ssd drive too?
What about type-C SSD drives? wouldn't that be quicker and any computers that you will be travelling to, or with would have a type-c connector no? Or are type-C SSD drives still way expensive?
uh the links in the description all lead to cameras, microphones, and audio recorder things
Hi, do you think it would increase or decrease performance of my MacBook Pro 2015 if I ran gaming or photo editing apps from an external nvme m.2 ssd instead of the internal drive?
Now, can I do this with a 2.5" SSD and an external SATA connector, while having it be able to be read by any computer it is plugged into without reformatting and re-partitioning?
In canada the 1tb wd passport goes for ~$70 whereas a 1tb internal ssd costs upwards of $300. Would it make sense to just buy this external one and use it for my main drive instead since the speeds are so similar? Why or why not?
EDIT: so I was looking at the price for the usb 3.0 version but would it still make sense?
Yes if it's cheaper
Dude theres physically no way that you have got the correct Wd passport there’s not a single 1tb ssd storage device under 250 dollars
While I can see the appeal to storing all of the games on the external SSD, The larger issue that isn't being address is how well will the average receiving computer handle it? Most modern games require a pretty powerful GPU, this is just covering the hard drive. I'm curious to see how it handles on an average computer that one might be at.
Rubbish
Next test should be SD cards right?
I'd love to see that.
Why was this not compared to the samsung t3? Since theyre similarly priced drives
how fast of an external do you need to run modern titles without slowdowns?
I could see this being useful for those on the go, but wouldnt you say the scenario of having multiple systems would warrant having a NAS rather than this? Just food for thought
yo what interface are you loading those over, 30 seconds to start bf1 is insane
I have a 256GB SSD in my Razor 15"... I want to get 1TB external SSD with Thunderbolt 3... Is there any special software I need to run from an external, and do I need to move files in from external to internal to play?
What's the point of it being an external ssd. Might as well enable hot plug sata and have a sata lead hanging out of your computer
There are still hot-swappable 3.5 or 2.5'' bays for 5.25'' slots. But "modern" cases does not have that...
I can also suggest Linux, NFS and gigabit (or faster) ethernet, but I don't care about EA's or Ubisoft's titles, you do.
And, like other have pointed out, you can simply buy GOOD usb3 enclosure and use ssd. It would be bigger than that WD drive, but much, much cheaper.
are you saying that you don't need an internal hard drive at all? thanks
Hey, I just bought a external backup drive and I download games on it. I can play the games until I unplug the drive. When I plug the drive back in I can't run or update the games if there is a update. It says their location is changed how can I fix this?? Plz help
How would you compare gaming off of this to the Samsung T5?
So the frame rate are the same as regular ssd and hdd
Another consideration is that SSDs are better for portable use. Magnetic drives are more susceptible to shock when thrown about in a backpack.
I bought me a Alienware 15 R3 laptop that has oly a 512 SSd... Can I use a single internal WD Blue 1TB HDD as a plug and use option with USB like interface?
Doesn’t loading the games on the same system using different drives cause some of the games files to be left in the cache giving you “increased” performance just based how how many times you loaded them? Did you run each test multiple times? Did you do a system restart in between switching drives?
How do you play the games if they are on the same drive and dont have a video card?
I really need more room for apps on my pc, should I get one?
This is great. I'm not able to install software on my work laptop and I've been thinking about doing this so I can use my work laptop to play games when I go home.
Get a 2G Seagate FireCuda SSHD. Storage and speed for just slightly more than a regular HD.
Lukiel666 I have the previous generation of those. 2TB SSHD that used to be my main drive and now is my mass storage and VM warehouse
This test show that usb 3.1 gen 2 has the same through put as sata, when reading that is.
Very good test. Thanks
hello. did you test this with CS: GO or PUBG? May I ask which ssd would be better in 2020/2021: Samsung T5 or this one? Thank You
Agreed. Dimitri is a luxury.
My segate hdd malfunctioning after heavy gaming from external hdd.niw its not working.gaming frim external hdd is noot eeliable
Can I use a 1tb lacie hard drive usb c connection ?
So how does an ssd in an external enclosure with usb 3.0 compare? Are there any gains over a 2.5 7200 hdd?
I bought that WD Passport SSD and then realized my laptop does not support USB 3.1 gen 2, only USB 3.0. Now I am wondering if I should return it still unopened to buy an internal ssd instead.
Eber, I'm asking a question which is totally out of context, i.e which icon pack you use on your smartphone ? Can you please tell!
I have a new question: I have played the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A., which was fantastic, but with the recent patch of 30 GB the game won't fit on my internal SSD and slotting in an extra is out of the question (the MSI GS65 Stealth has the motherboard fixed upside down). Do you think I can install and run the game on my regular external HDD (Silicon Power USB 3.0 with 2 TB) or will I need a speedy external SSD? Thank you for this video!
So how does an HDD compare to an SSD? I'm guessing it's a better option, but it's over 4 times the price per GB. I'll probably still jump for the SSD, but I'm just a bit curious as to why.
how about using a TB3 ext drive like the Samsung T3?
I got a new pc and I'm downloading all my games and I only have a 500gb ssd in it. I have a Seagate 2tb external hard usb 3.0 would it be good to use on my pc for gaming?
I have a question: if my graphics card are old and i get only 30 fps, if i buy and run game on ssd, do i get more fps?
how about an NVME SSD? how does that compare to the other drives?
I have a external hard drive I just want to know if can take it off my ps4 and put it on another one
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