Posted November 21, 2017
Hi,
I have 2 sandisk extreme (3.0?/SSD?) 64gb external flash drives. I am currently running out of space on my main ssd-/operating-system hard drive(well I have been told that 10% must always be free for best PC performance, with 25% being best, and I am now at c.10.5%). I could upgrade from 1Tb to 2TB, but want to wait until the new volta graphics cards etc. are released to the public. Anyway, I would like to install and run full, large pc games from my flash-drives and have read claims that such flash drives would quickly get worn out/ruined by such a practice due to extensive read-writes done while pc gaming, that the game would slow down in performance to some extent, and that I would be unable to play on other computers as the pc game would have to get registry keys on the main PC registry on the operating-system hard drive, in order to work. All the above claims were just that, and was wondering if people have actually done what I plan re using external flash drives/hard drives to install and play large pc games(whether old or current), and would like to hear from them as regards the rough average drop in performance of such a practice etc.. Thanks!
I have 2 sandisk extreme (3.0?/SSD?) 64gb external flash drives. I am currently running out of space on my main ssd-/operating-system hard drive(well I have been told that 10% must always be free for best PC performance, with 25% being best, and I am now at c.10.5%). I could upgrade from 1Tb to 2TB, but want to wait until the new volta graphics cards etc. are released to the public. Anyway, I would like to install and run full, large pc games from my flash-drives and have read claims that such flash drives would quickly get worn out/ruined by such a practice due to extensive read-writes done while pc gaming, that the game would slow down in performance to some extent, and that I would be unable to play on other computers as the pc game would have to get registry keys on the main PC registry on the operating-system hard drive, in order to work. All the above claims were just that, and was wondering if people have actually done what I plan re using external flash drives/hard drives to install and play large pc games(whether old or current), and would like to hear from them as regards the rough average drop in performance of such a practice etc.. Thanks!