Is an external SSD just as fast as if it were installed and would it also be suitable for loading games on and starting from it?

Di
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I have the gaming notebook l340 gaming from Lenovo with which I'm very satisfied. I've had it for about 2 months now.

The disadvantage is that it only has a 128 GB SSD that is currently full and a 1 terabyte hard drive.

Since everyone says that games and applications start faster from the SSD and are better to use, I have to look at what I can throw down there. But still it is little storage space.

Therefore, I'm considering whether I can buy an external 1 TB hard drive SSD because otherwise only a Lenovo workshop could install it so that the guarantee is not lost. And so far I don't know if there's one in Hanover.

Therefore, the question is worth buying an external SSD hard drive and it would be suitable not only to load data such as pictures, videos on it, what else you do with external hard drives, but also to directly load games and programs (e.g. Video editing program) onto it to start from there?

I look forward to your reply, opinion.

Ro

If your notebook has a USB 3.0 connection, then theoretically up to 625 Mbyte / s of data can be transferred via this interface.

In practice, about 550 to 575 Mbyte / s will be usable, and therefore yes, a good external SSD can work relatively fast with a USB 3.0 connection like a SATA 6GB / s SSD.

In principle, up to 10 Gbit / s = 1.25 Gbyte / s = ~ 1 Gbyte / s would be practically usable on the new USB 3.1 Gen.2 interface.

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It depends…

An internal SSD via PCIe bus can have 2000 or 3000 MB / s or more, while external SSDs via USB or Thunderbolt usually only have around 500MB / s

So if there's only a simple standard SATA SSD in your computer, it will only have around 500 MB / s like an external one, if you have a better device with a PCIe SSD then an external one will not be as fast as the internal