Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General SSD Required?

That's not accurate.




A HDD on a SATA interface has a transfer rate of 100 MBps–200 MBps. The lowest quality USB 3.1 Generation 1 interface is 3 to 4 times faster than that. Plus you still get the faster access time and read write speeds of the SSD.

So a Baseline SSD, on a Baseline 3.1 USB gen 1 cable, will still wildly outperform any HDD.

Plenty of people run games on external SSD's and can attest to how much better they are for loading speeds and framerates.

Please don't tell people they will be "fine with an HDD" - you are setting them up for disappointment.

A terrabyte SSD is $50, just pick one up if you're worried.

Imo I would always go for an internal drive over an external one if you have space and that's true even if you have have thunderbolt port. If you are short on money check out ebay - people often pull the smaller ones that come with the computer and put in a larger one.

And, again, the advantage of the smaller ones is that you can add to it later. Setting up a RAID is a daunting task (backup everything and have a tech savvy friend help!) but once you do the difference between single HDD and SDD RAID is night and day. I no longer think about HDD loading times - I only worries while playing are "how much heat can my GPU tolerate"?