External Hard Drive

[Ricardo Medina Acosta]

I have a Legion Y720 wich includes a 1tb hdd, to my surprise steam games eat that drive like it was cookies and is geting full reall quick, i am thinking in buing an external hdd to keep al this games.

 

My laptop has usb 3.0 and thunderbolt 3, when buying an external hdd my guess is that i dont need more than the usb 3.0 for bandwith since thunderbolt drives are really expensive.

 

Should i care about external hhd thunderbolt or usb 3.0 is just fine? Wich one would you recomend? I guess one with ac power is better since it doesnt pulls energy out of the usb, and im not taking the drive almost never from my desk. Also 5400 rpm would be a bottleneck.

 

In summary, i need an 7200 rpm usb3.0 external hdd...right? thinking that i dont have the money for thunderbolt 3 drives.

[Uptivuptiz]

Yes, USB 3.0 is just fine. I got a Maxtor M3 Portable 2TB  5400RPM drive and I have my whole steam library on there. It runs just fine with no additional power other than USB.

 

[Pixel5]

if you gonna buy a hard drive anyways why not just buy one that fits into the laptop and save yourself the hassle of having to connect an external drive to play games.

 

not to mention the speed via USB will be lower than if its internal.