How to Use An External Drive as Your Boot Drive for Gaming | Inside Gaming with Seagate

If you find your game drive filling up fast, we’re here to show you how to use an external drive as your source drive for saving and loading DRM games from digital distributors like Steam. Whether you’re using a super fast NVMe SSD like the FireCuda Gaming SSD, or a USB SATA like the BarraCuda Fast SSD, or even an external HDD like the one that comes standard in the FireCuda Gaming Dock, we’ll look at how to make sure your games are properly stored.

Links we reference:
FireCuda Gaming SSD

BarraCuda Fast SSD

FireCuda Gaming Dock

[calebgray]

I bought a 1 TB external Hard drive awhile ago and this is the only video I found that clearly explained how to set it up.

[siralzz]

For anyone that came across this well structured video just outdated with steam under the settings there’s a corresponding tab that says Contents it will allow you to do the same thing, but if not a little easier and simpler

[montla]

Spent an hour trying to find a good video that explains all of this.. Perfect video. Thank you. Easy to follow, easy to understand, easy to execute. I appreciate the time and effort to put this out into the world.

[vihaankedia]

Wish I could afford this, but its good to know that this is an option once I finally can

[yoitsfrankieblivegaming]

Thank you for teaching me this. It makes life as a gamer less complicated. There's so much i didn't know and its great that there are people who take time out of their day to make these videos for people like myself.

[leahs]

i legit worship the ground you walk on rn thank you sm

[micah]

Fast, informative, straight to the point. Thank you! nice video.

[joshuashea]

This is the most informative video I have watched on youtube. No bs just straight to it and I love it.

[vip_man]

This is just what I needed, I set it up pretty easy but couldn't use the storage it provided to me, this saved me so much stress thank you much apreciation

[CRDPlays]

Spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to get it to show up, this guys a legend

[socialdebonair]

Thank you, thank you, thank you my main man. I recently sold my PS five because I got a steam deck and I’m an Xbox fan who has the XS. There are only a handful of exclusives that I wanted to play on PlayStation that steam offer so it only made sense to me to use the steam platform to play those PlayStation games as well as PC games. I updated the ram in my laptop and quickly realized that the SSD inside my laptop was insufficient. I went and got a 5 TB HDD Drive for 119 bucks at Best Buy and utilizing the information that you gave in this very quick concise infotainment video. I am so happy to report. I now have tons of room for all the games that I want to put on my laptop and take with me anywhere I go. Thank you so much please continue with great videos like this.

[rileypucevich]

I just got a new external hard drive, and couldn’t figure out how to download files to it. This video was so useful

[Zmappingss]

I have this problem for years sound is loud and clear + video is very professional + easy to follow. Thanks man

[SagittariusSisyphus]

Simple and right to the point. I really liked this video and there were all the side infos I needed. Thank you :D

[rldnate]

They really updated this on steam to make more accessible I would follow this videos guide just like I did and you’ll see what I mean if not I’m sure the steps are still right here!!!! Thanks a bunch

[shaquilleautomobile]

This really helped I just got a 1tb flash drive to carry more games and tried to download some stuff but it wouldn’t worked until you showed me

[MaddieM_]

This was easy and I just got my first TB! Thank you so much!

[HamzaKhan-yfvc]

so your saying if i get lets say a samsung T7 USB 3.2 Gen 2 1TB then i can download games on my laptop which i couldnt before because of storage. please let me know cause i wanna download a game on play store but there not enough storage on my laptop

[personwhoexists]

This video is a little bit outdated, so if you’re on steam, go to storage not downloads.

[asquishyhedgehog]

Bro you don’t know how big of a life savor you are