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Steam game sorage on external HDD? Is it good? Your expiriences? Does it effect on game performance?

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Hello guys! Happy new year! :D

New year and new build. I'm planing build mini ITX skylake sistem in Silverstone SG13. But if I put AIO cooler in it, it wont be enought space for HDD.

In that case I'll put games on external HDD.

My question is that have any big difference from SATA drives? Does it effect to FPS be lower than the usual?

I ran my games off an external HDD for ages, I couldnt see a difference

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Hello guys! Happy new year! :D
New year and new build. I'm planing build mini ITX skylake sistem in Silverstone SG13. But if I put AIO cooler in it, it wont be enought space for HDD.

In that case I'll put games on external HDD.

My question is that have any big difference from SATA drives? Does it effect to FPS be lower than the usual?

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Hello guys! Happy new year! :D

New year and new build. I'm planing build mini ITX skylake sistem in Silverstone SG13. But if I put AIO cooler in it, it wont be enought space for HDD.

In that case I'll put games on external HDD.

My question is that have any big difference from SATA drives? Does it effect to FPS be lower than the usual?

I ran my games off an external HDD for ages, I couldnt see a difference

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You shouldn't notice that much of a difference, only slightly longer load times in some cases.

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You shouldn't notice that much of a difference, only slightly longer load times in some cases.

I can deal with that. Patience is my strong side of personality. :D

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there is no difference between an ssd or hdd for games the only difference is quicker load times just grab a 7200rpm drive and you will be fine 

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