Internal or External does it matter now?

Count_Zero99uk · 2025-01-17T16:51:46+0000

I was wondering about fitting some extra storage into my case, which is possible but a bit tight. But it dawned on me that with the transfer speeds of usb now is an external USB dock capable of running games as well as being used as bulk storage?

Minstadave · 2025-01-17T16:54:47+0000

USB has got so fast that's it's absolutely viable to have external game storage.

Tythus · 2025-01-17T17:17:40+0000

Only issue I can think of is I don't think direct storage works over USB only pcie

Count_Zero99uk · 2025-01-17T19:42:28+0000

Tythus said:
Only issue I can think of is I don't think direct storage works over USB only pcie

Sorry what do you mean by this?

Minstadave · 2025-01-17T20:05:50+0000

Count_Zero99uk said:
Sorry what do you mean by this?

Direct storage is meant to be an improved way that games access storage with less overhead. It's not designed to work over USB and only a handful of games support it so far.

The State of Microsoft DirectStorage | CORSAIR

DirectStorage promises big things for the future of gaming, but we're not there yet. Here are the games that support it and which might in the future.

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Gray2233 · 2025-01-17T20:14:05+0000

You can get USB C/3.2 drives that'll do around 1,050 MB/s read/write for relatively cheap tbh.

You can also buy enclosures + NvME's that have small footprint.

Direct Storage might be a concern but I can honestly say I've never made use of it, how big of a deal is it in genuine terms as of right now? Tons of modern games don't care, if it becomes more common you could just be more particular about what you installed where.