Would a high quality USB 3 SSD beat the speeds of a SATA II internal
7200rpm for gaming?
Not entirely sure if Stack Overflow deals with general hardware
questions... but I figured if anyone would have a shot at knowing, you
guys would! =D
I have a gaming laptop and a desktop that I switch between pretty
regularly due to not being home often. Rather than purchasing two SSDs, I
was considering whether I could get away with getting a single USB 3 SSD
and installing the games I needed on it instead!
I currently have SATA II , 7200rpm drives drives in both. Standard drives,
basically. I'm looking to see a performance increase on load times on both
machines, and was curious whether the USB 3 SSD would be able to
outperform them in this regard or not. It seems like it would, but I've
heard latency across USB 3 can actually be pretty bad, so I don't want to
put out the money necessary to get this drive and find out that, in
actuality, it comes out slower!
Just for a side note- the laptop does not have an esata drive, so I that
isn't an option. :-\
So what do you guys think: Would a high quality USB 3 SSD beat the load
speeds of a SATA II internal 7200rpm for gaming?
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