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Just out of curiosity has anybody tried to run a flight sim program from an external SSD via a USB 3 connection? If so, is it feasible?

 

 

 

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Just out of curiosity has anybody tried to run a flight sim program from an external SSD via a USB 3 connection? If so, is it feasible?

 

 

 

Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.6 GHz; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti 11GB GDDR5X; ASRock Z270 K6 Gaming MB, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM; 500GB SSD + 2TB HDD; Windows 10 Pro 64-bit; 34" 21:9 curved 4K Monitor

 

Yes, but sloooooooww...:rolleyes:

Keep the main program on the main SSD. Move ancillary files - those that only load on startup - to the USB slot SSD.

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Thanks for your reply. That is pretty much what I expected, but I was thinking that external SSD's claim read/write speeds around 500MB/sec, which would be around 2sec/GB - not that bad?

 

 

 

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Thanks for your reply. That is pretty much what I expected, but I was thinking that external SSD's claim read/write speeds around 500MB/sec, which would be around 2sec/GB - not that bad?

 

 

 

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An external USB3 SSD will be slower than an internal SSD, but still reasonably fast. USB2, on the other hand, would be much, much slower. If possible, an internal SSD would still be preferable though.

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