Hi All,
I'm off to college soon, and will be getting a capable laptop as I am going into engineering (likely a Zephyrus Duo 15 when it comes out). I would like to avoid filling up the internal (and expensive) NVME storage on the laptop with games, so I want to get an external drive for them.
A few questions:
- Should I consider something "rugged" as I will likely be traveling with the drive a decent amount, or is it sufficient to make some case out of foam?
- Hard drive or SSD? SSD is much more expensive, but will I see a major improvement from this as opposed to a hard drive in terms of game performance?
- Are there different speeds of external drives? 5400RPM, 7200RPM, etc.
- Interface? Is USB 3.0 good enough, or should I be looking for something with USB C 3.2?
- How does the interface for an external drive work with various game services? Steam, Battlenet, Riot etc.
- Anything else I should know?
Thanks for your help!
- JM