stubby2 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) I recently purchased a Western Digital Mybook usb 3.0 external HDD. I noticed when I ran X Plane 11 that I was getting a lot of lag and jitter. When I looked at the frame rates they were bouncing all over. I turned graphics settings down and enabled Vsync, but that did not help. X plane was running fine on my C drive so I moved it back so now everything runs fine as before. I also fly DCS and have not had a problem running it off the external drive. Both games are steam versions. Is it possible to run X Plane off an external drive ? Games now take so much space that I run out of storage too quickly. X plane I think is uniquely demanding in term of resources so the problem may be game specific. Has anyone had success running X plane from an external drive ? I would like to be able to do so if possible. One thing I should mention. When I ran a file integrity check when I moved X plane to the external drive there were some files that needed to be fixed, however, Steam did not fix the files when I ran the integrity check again. Edited March 6, 2020 by stubby2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueb Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 While I do use external USB hard drives for backup purposes, I use an external StarTech docking station that holds 2 SSD drives (see ). I find the SSD drives are VERY fast. I use the first one for all things X-Plane... the 2nd is a back-up of the first. I make a backup copy of the X-Plane drive often... but only if everything ran without glitches, or if I added planes/scenery, etc. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stubby2 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 I am not familiar with that product. What is the advantage of a docking station vs a powered usb 3.0 external drive. I went to the web site and it indicated the docking station is top loading. How do I mount the drive ? What hardware would I need ? Also, could my computer have limitations which would prevent me from taking full advantage of the docking station ? Thanks for the info. I need to investigate further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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