Drive speed question

[balzer45]

I'm looking to buy an external ssd for my laptop to use as a game drive, however researching got me thinking... Why not just use an internal ssd and get an external ssd enclosure? So I was wondering if anyone had any input on this, is it a good idea to go with the external drive or just purchase an SSD enclosure and get a separate internal ssd to put inside it? If that's the case, should I get a usb 3.1 or a usb 3.0 enclosure? (My laptop has both thunderbolt 3 and usb 3.1).

[corrado33]

You could absolutely do that. However, I've found that generally it's cheaper to just buy an external drive already assembled. I don't know why, but it is.

 

USB 3.1 is fine. (It has double the bandwidth of USB 3.0)

[Shubham kumar pandey]

It completely depends on to you that what you want mobility or performance or both 

If you are going to use it as a pure game storage then use should chose an internal one but if you want to make it as a portable storage also you should use a external case for it (obviously the USB 3.1)for both portability and performance  

[Enderman]

It's not a really good solution because USB will bottleneck the speed and also make it so that if it gets accidentally unplugged your OS gets corrupted.

Also it looks bad and is hard to move around.