To run games off? Buy bigger internal drives and replace them.

External drives you just want to use as mass storage vs running games off them, I suppose you could use it as game storage and put the game you are playing at the time on to the internal SSD, if that's the case you could buy a regular HD at a much bigger size for the price and you could use the SATA ports inside the PC provided your case has room for a 3.5" drive.

Originally posted by wing0zero:

To run games off? Buy bigger internal drives and replace them.

External drives you just want to use as mass storage vs running games off them, I suppose you could use it as game storage and put the game you are playing at the time on to the internal SSD, if that's the case you could buy a regular HD at a much bigger size for the price and you could use the SATA ports inside the PC provided your case has room for a 3.5" drive.

I have only two slots and recently already bought a 2 TB internal ssd that's why I thought I could use an external one for running smaller games.

May run less demanding titles ok, why not just uninstall some games you're not playing right now? I'm the same though I have all my games downloaded and stored on 2 8TB HD's

Originally posted by Snowi ❄:

I have only two slots and recently already bought a 2 TB internal ssd that's why I thought I could use an external one for running smaller games.

When you say slots do you mean M.2 drives?

Originally posted by wing0zero:

May run less demanding titles ok, why not just uninstall some games you're not playing right now? I'm the same though I have all my games downloaded and stored on 2 8TB HD's

Originally posted by Snowi ❄:

I have only two slots and recently already bought a 2 TB internal ssd that's why I thought I could use an external one for running smaller games.

When you say slots do you mean M.2 drives?

Yeah, usually I would delete games after finishing or losing interest but lately I just like having several installed at once. I switch games often depending on my mood.

Yes.

Your motherboard also has sockets to plug 2.5" & 3.5" drives in.

This is what I would recommend, you can probably put 4 to 6 of these in provided your case has room for them.

Two ways of going.

A 2.5" SSD
Seagate 2TB BarraCuda SSD 2.5" SATA[www.scan.co.uk]

or slower but bigger 3.5" HD

Seagate BarraCuda 8TB 3.5"[www.scan.co.uk]

Both drives cost about the same but show the difference you get going HD vs SSD.

I favor Silicon Power storage.

External storage is crap for gaming

Need more information. Firstly, what kind of computer? Desktop or laptop? If its a desktop it probably has a bunch of internal sata ports available that can be used for more drives which would be better than external drives. Sata ssds are slower than m.2 nvme but still more than enough for games.

There are also pcie adapters that add more m.2 slots also if you dont want sata ssds.

I would not recommend using external drives for games. It may work but can have problems if you unplug it.

Originally posted by Snowi ❄:

Yeah, usually I would delete games after finishing or losing interest but lately I just like having several installed at once. I switch games often depending on my mood.

Even with big modern AAA 150GB games, 2TB should be enough for over a dozen.

I've got a 1TB SSD and 1TB partition of an HDD (for older games), and I've got like 90 games installed. (ranging from ~125gb to under 1)

Get a docking station like this instead

https://youtu.be/CMalySsMUG4?si=NvziiCixBupsY5Pg

You can then use a cheaper internal ssd or hdd for your pc

does the mobo have any sata ports free?

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&c1=di_sata.60&A=960000000000,26000000000000

Originally posted by Andrius227:

Need more information. Firstly, what kind of computer? Desktop or laptop? If its a desktop it probably has a bunch of internal sata ports available that can be used for more drives which would be better than external drives. Sata ssds are slower than m.2 nvme but still more than enough for games.

There are also pcie adapters that add more m.2 slots also if you dont want sata ssds.

I would not recommend using external drives for games. It may work but can have problems if you unplug it.

I mean I would only use the external SSD for some smaller or mid range farming games. The bigger AAA titles I would keep on my internal drive.

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Originally posted by Snowi ❄:

Yeah, usually I would delete games after finishing or losing interest but lately I just like having several installed at once. I switch games often depending on my mood.

Even with big modern AAA 150GB games, 2TB should be enough for over a dozen.

I've got a 1TB SSD and 1TB partition of an HDD (for older games), and I've got like 90 games installed. (ranging from ~125gb to under 1)

Yeah, guess I have too many AAA games installed and now I have almost no storage for the smaller mid range ones. For that I could at least use an external SSD.

Originally posted by Snowi ❄:

Originally posted by Andrius227:

Need more information. Firstly, what kind of computer? Desktop or laptop? If its a desktop it probably has a bunch of internal sata ports available that can be used for more drives which would be better than external drives. Sata ssds are slower than m.2 nvme but still more than enough for games.

There are also pcie adapters that add more m.2 slots also if you dont want sata ssds.

I would not recommend using external drives for games. It may work but can have problems if you unplug it.

I mean I would only use the external SSD for some smaller or mid range farming games. The bigger AAA titles I would keep on my internal drive.

I mean you can, but if you unplugged it, or if the drive disconnected itself for some reason (which does happen with external drives sometimes), your games may get uninstalled. If you are ok with redownloading games regularly then sure you can use an external drive.

Originally posted by Snowi ❄:

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Even with big modern AAA 150GB games, 2TB should be enough for over a dozen.

I've got a 1TB SSD and 1TB partition of an HDD (for older games), and I've got like 90 games installed. (ranging from ~125gb to under 1)

Yeah, guess I have too many AAA games installed and now I have almost no storage for the smaller mid range ones. For that I could at least use an external SSD.

If you're just looking to use the drive for lower-end stuff, and your mobo has SATA headers free, you could always go with an internal 2.5" SATA SSD. Plenty fast for older/smaller games.