just purchsed the brand new 16 inch LG gram with intel evo and intergrated graghics, and was about to buy the SanDisk 1TB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB Type-C - SDDDC4-1T00-G46, will it run games over 100GB like GTA 5 be fine from a high speed transfer data usb stick?
Running Modern Large Games from USB Drives Ok on new laptop?
DEvok on 05/10/2024 - 19:31
Last edited 05/10/2024 - 19:31
Last edited 05/10/2024 - 19:31
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Top comment guy here says he's done what you want to do and it "worked perfectly" with a USB 3 drive https://old.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/gm8mvx/will_gta_…
only used portable hdds and i never had a problem… usb sticks would heat the f up and throttle imo
The most ideal scenario, is to just upgrade the internal SSD to something bigger (As long as its not soldered) to maybe something like this
https://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-Plus-NAND-Drive-Multicolor…But if you must use it as external storage, USB is actually horrible for the use case. No one mentioned random reads and writes, which games use all the time and are nearly unusable (by games standards) on USB protocol. The only way around it is to get an SSD NVME enclosure that uses the NVME through PCI-E lanes from the thunderbolt port. Something like this link below, plus the link above would get that done (not cheap though)
https://www.amazon.com.au/SABRENT-Thunderbolt-Certified-Tool…You might find a few enclosures that are $30 that look very similar, but these also use USB for transfer rather than the PCI-E lanes.
It would probably work alright assuming the drive doesn’t overheat.
However I would only use it if I had one these drives lying around collecting dust. If you had to buy something then I would highly recommend looking to see if you can add secondary NVMe drive or upgrading the primary to something larger.
If you really don’t want to open up the laptop, then an external SSD would be my next recommendationThanks for the advice only haveb250GB space in laptop, games are really going really big especially after installation, wish could run these games on zip format and could potentially save space like in old days, sorry haven't purchased a serious laptop since my BENQ in 2001!
No. Not only is 150 MB/s max read speed pretty slow, it won’t be sustained speeds either.
Also highly doubt the integrated graphics will provide a decent gaming experience.