Can you use the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD 500 GB for gaming?
I have a gaming laptop with 500Gb of storage. Since this is nowhere near enough, I want to upgrade with an external hard drive. The question is whether the hard drive mentioned above is capable of this (my USB port can handle 10Gbit)?
Yup, you can.
The Samsung T5 range is also recommended.
But everything should work out great with that too.
Okay thank you very much
Yes. Actually any hard drive or SSD, although faster loading times are of course more pleasant.
This is an SSD, so it is much faster (especially in the IOPS) than a normal hard drive.
I would not recommend this external disk for gaming because it has a transfer rate of 550Mbit / s. If that's enough for you then that's ok but rather no for real gaming.
Do you need more than 550 Mbit to gamble? In which world do you live?
Thanks for quick replies. Can I also play games like Cyberpunk over it (games that require a lot of performance)?
It's not just about the transfer rate. It is the IOPS that are most important. The biggest difference is therefore noticeable between a SATA HDD and SATA SSD.
Of course, you have even faster data rates with NVMe (which are limited to 1.25 GB / s with USB 10 GBit / s), but NVMe is only worthwhile if it is not much more expensive.
No, sorry, I made a mistake. That's enough!
If you already buy an extra external hard drive, take a 1000 GB straight away, otherwise you will probably buy the next one in 2 months and most PCs / notebooks don't have that many USB 3 ports after all.
