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External SSD

Physical Product · SSDs & storage drives · 7 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/buildapc

Reddit take

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Pros

  • An external SSD is generally fine for gaming as long as you have a fast enough USB port to plug it into and the drive you buy is good enough and fast enough.

Cons

  • External SSD will not run at the speed you need for gaming. Get an internal one and just watch a YouTube video on how to install it or take it somewhere and have someone do it for you.
  • oof, I would def use an hdd for backups
  • Personally I've had bad luck with 2 of them, but I don't know the stats behind their failure rates
  • An external SSD won't help that much as Windows keeps tripping over the HDD inside.
  • You can't trust that one external SSD will store all your photos forever.

Sentiment

1 positive (14%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 6 negative (86%)

Trust + time weighted score: -73% · raw score -71%

What redditors said (7 of 7)

External SSD will not run at the speed you need for gaming. Get an internal one and just watch a YouTube video on how to install it or take it somewhere and have someone do it for you.
negative · u/m****1 · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
oof, I would def use an hdd for backups
negative · u/C****7 · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 14, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Personally I've had bad luck with 2 of them, but I don't know the stats behind their failure rates
negative · u/W****e · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 8, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
An external SSD won't help that much as Windows keeps tripping over the HDD inside.
negative · u/A****n · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
You can't trust that one external SSD will store all your photos forever.
negative · u/L****s · r/buildapc · comment · Jan 26, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
An external SSD is generally fine for gaming as long as you have a fast enough USB port to plug it into and the drive you buy is good enough and fast enough.
positive · u/H****s · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
SATA would also work, but I would not put games on a fully external (USB 3?) drive. Too many things can go wrong, and the load times would be atrocious.
negative · u/c****o · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 8, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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