Gaming on an External Drive WITHOUT Slowdowns!

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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[JarrodsTech]

These USB SSDs are faster than my old internal SSD lol

[Zoranurai]

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

[TiN]

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.

[funkyboi]

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

[jasonb]

This channel has the absolute best b-rolls, no question.

[droplighttech]

As a review, having games on an external drive is so useful! And an SSD is definitely work it for an external games drive.

[vinrave]

I just bought a sandisk 500gb SSD external USB type C and I tried playing heavy games from it. It works great!

[SimonLavictoire]

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I suppose asking for those links in the descriptions you talked about would be unreasonnable because everthing must be out of date.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?

[XDeadzX]

Curious how it lines up with a cheap m.2 nvme drive. Something faster than SATA but not the fastest.

[tonyzhuravlev]

i played csgo on an sd card for a month kek

[m-copyright]

That SSD looks like a Merci Chocolate Bar. Seriously, check it out.

[AxiomofDiscord]

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.

[ninonicebx]

I was happy when I saw you testing my WD 1TB SSD Passport External. I love it.
Great vid.

[sesosa]

I have WD My Passport 2TB. I downloaded all my favorite games. Nothing slow, laggy, So smooth and play well!! I love it!

[andyyiu]

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.

[MansonX]

I absolutely love hearing how u discuss this subject. Very informative and very well spoken. And great quality on a very simple video.

[FlashgunFilmUK]

Love SSDs but I need at least 2T and the price is insane vs a HD

[JoshTechBytes]

Interesting video, good job on all the testing, must have taken a while :P

[khalidkhan-gmtn]

will leave a link down below

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[GamerzIntercom]

Your videos are really well thought of. Thank you bro.