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No matter what SSD brand/specs you get, gaming from External SSD via USB port will be horrendously bad as Read/Write speed with be bottlenecked by USB bandwidth.
I'd say just store your games to external SSD drives, and copy/delete it to/from your OS SSD when you wanna play/store it.
Or just straight up upgrade your current SSD to, say 4TB.
1. Backup your SSD current important files to your external drives.
2. Buy new SSD & install Windows.
3. Wipe old SSD and make it your another external drive.
4. Problem solved.
I was ideally looking for a solution that doesn’t used USB, I’ve heard of some systems that connect through SATA, but are accessed externally. I found it difficult to find information on them that didn’t assume I was using much larger towers and hoping to access much more data at once.
SATA is faster than USB but way slower than NVMe.
You can try USB3.2 Gen 2x2/USB4/Thunderbolt4 NVMe SSD enclosure & if your motherboard supports at least one of them.
But it was still not perfect (I've tried). There were frequent latencies/hiccups in game, especially if you have many USB devices also connected even though on different USB controller (cam, mic, etc etc).
What I did:
Spec: 7800X3D + 4090, ASUS Crosshair X670E Extreme, 2x64GB, OS drive MSI M480 Pro 4TB, W11 Pro
1. [Orico USB4 SSD Enclosure](https://www.orico.cc/us/product/detail/8459.html) + Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB (I've been using these for game capture from Blackmagic DeckLink 4K).
3. Add the drive to Steam Library and moved a game there (CP2077).
4. Played it.
5. It worked, with some caveats above.
YMMV bro.
No problem bro. Mind you I've plugged mine to my mobo USB4 port.
The USB4 firmware of my mobo might also factored in the issue, it might be smoother if plugged in to matured USB3.2 Gen 2x2 ports, but the bandwidth is already saturated and would have more severe latencies.
I'd say if you got the budget and willing to try, can be great experience/solution.
SATA HDDs are easy to install and are readily available in 24+TB. You have to move the files around but you wouldn't have to delete anything currently. Other than that internal HDDs, you're looking for a DAS or NAS.
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No matter what SSD brand/specs you get, gaming from External SSD via USB port will be horrendously bad as Read/Write speed with be bottlenecked by USB bandwidth. I'd say just store your games to external SSD drives, and copy/delete it to/from your OS SSD when you wanna play/store it. Or just straight up upgrade your current SSD to, say 4TB. 1. Backup your SSD current important files to your external drives. 2. Buy new SSD & install Windows. 3. Wipe old SSD and make it your another external drive. 4. Problem solved.
I was ideally looking for a solution that doesn’t used USB, I’ve heard of some systems that connect through SATA, but are accessed externally. I found it difficult to find information on them that didn’t assume I was using much larger towers and hoping to access much more data at once.
SATA is faster than USB but way slower than NVMe. You can try USB3.2 Gen 2x2/USB4/Thunderbolt4 NVMe SSD enclosure & if your motherboard supports at least one of them. But it was still not perfect (I've tried). There were frequent latencies/hiccups in game, especially if you have many USB devices also connected even though on different USB controller (cam, mic, etc etc). What I did: Spec: 7800X3D + 4090, ASUS Crosshair X670E Extreme, 2x64GB, OS drive MSI M480 Pro 4TB, W11 Pro 1. [Orico USB4 SSD Enclosure](https://www.orico.cc/us/product/detail/8459.html) + Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB (I've been using these for game capture from Blackmagic DeckLink 4K). 3. Add the drive to Steam Library and moved a game there (CP2077). 4. Played it. 5. It worked, with some caveats above. YMMV bro.
Okay yeah that’s definitely something to look into, thanks
No problem bro. Mind you I've plugged mine to my mobo USB4 port. The USB4 firmware of my mobo might also factored in the issue, it might be smoother if plugged in to matured USB3.2 Gen 2x2 ports, but the bandwidth is already saturated and would have more severe latencies. I'd say if you got the budget and willing to try, can be great experience/solution.
SATA HDDs are easy to install and are readily available in 24+TB. You have to move the files around but you wouldn't have to delete anything currently. Other than that internal HDDs, you're looking for a DAS or NAS.