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Theres a extra NVMe port for another SSD if wanted. and the SATA ports are empty at the motherboard.
At some point the spinner is going to be replaced by a fast SSD off the USB. It will take about a day to download it to that.
SSD speeds are always governed by the slowest data chain link/connection in your system and can't transfer data faster than the actual speed limitations via the actual connection in use. PCIe slots inside your PC on the motherboard, will always provide the fastest speeds your particular SSD type is capable of. So little point in buying more expensive 'potentially faster' NVMe M.2 drives, if its data transfer speed hampered by your slower external connection method like USB for instance.
Best.
Yes, it is.
And a matter of fact, I do use mechanical (yes, mechanical, not a typo) external 7200 rpm hard drive to test various versions, as I do not want to clutter my internal SSD drives (TSC is not THAT demanding, it will more than happily run off the conventional hard drive, provided the drive in question has reasonably fast connection and the system itself has enough RAM to cache it).
One caveat though - most common type of connection is USB 3 (or faster) and while this connection is fast enough to play this game (especially of the SSD), it is rather poor "multitasker", so some "self-discipline" is sometimes required (internal drives, no matter whether SATA or NVMe, can handle even several continuous "streams" of data much more readily than external drive, which can usually handle only one at time - this is not a problem when playing game, but it can be a problem, when doing several things at once - it will run and it will finish, eventually, but it the system response might be rather slow).
I recall a video years ago where a Asian took 126 USB devices and raided all of them The result was a system that could blaze everything. I will have to go back and see if I can find it.
So a game on this one, another game on that one and 98 more games to go....
Flash or thumb drives are my go to for storage. There are a handful from college days 20 years plus that still work fine. although its hard to use them because they are so tiny today. 256 mb or whatever does not go far.
Current NVMe SSD's seriously blew my mind. They are awesome to use a 80's term. I would carefully choose one big fat fast sob and stick that into the box. See how that goes. Its even possible to install a PCI card with storage on it now and opens up possibilites that make system ram itself obsolete in a way of speaking.
I brought my vet back from our VA recently and it blew me away that the Pharmacy was running off desktops not much larger than a deck of playing cards now.
Best rule of thumb if lucky to own a more modern PC with a modern motherboard included, is use the now common M.2 PCIe NVMe slot or slots for the fastest bandwidth M.2 NVMe SSD connections to your CPU. Otherwise (or as well), use an internal mounted SATA III connected SSD or multiples of connected to your PC's internal SATA III input hub. Slower data transfer but still much better than older HDD's.
Best.
https://www.techadvisor.com/article/742967/usb-speeds-types-and-features-explained.html
Is he right or just playing safe?
There is no need to re-install Windows or your programs if you do not wish to, a simple drive copy is all that is needed. You can certainly format and re-use the old drive for bulk data storage or archiving, that is exactly what I did.
If you go for a new NVme M2 drive(s), you will be shocked at the increase is speed and decrease in load times.
For example the old mechanical SATA 1 Tb drive read/write was tested @ 176 Mb/s read, 171 Mb/s write.
The 500 Gb Samsung 970 Evo plus M2 tested @ 3563 Mb read, 3267 Mb/s write.
That is about a 20 times increase in speed.
Physically I would buy a NVMe SSD Drive for the extra socket on the motherboard in my machine, something decently huge and fast like 1T, 2T or even larger. Plug in. Use Windows Control Panel Admin - Storage etc (Older windows 7 style. Win 10 probably will behave somewhat differently) to format the new SSD and so on. When its virgin and ready, simply...
Mouse over C drive after rebooting, copy and paste to new NVMe SSD. Wait.
Try to confirm that the entire C has copied over to the SSD down to the last little bit of total data in kb.
Assuming you have your box open already, shut down the computer and immediately disconnect the original C. Set aside. Thats your new system image for future problems.
The next boot you do should only have the new SSD in it. Nothing else connected in terms of drives, sticks, storage etc. Your computer will hunt for something to boot from and should see only that new SSD.
Once you reach desktop check that drive to be sure its C and no other letter. Then quietly go over the computer stuff and make sure you have everything more or less as before.
Make a small note sticky paper and find a antistatic wrap, put the old original C drive inside with the note describing what it was, what computer it came from and so on. Find a shelf to store it on.
Thats why I keep Steam, Games, anything else on external USB Drives alone. Anything on my one NVMe Drive inside this computer in particular is just the C drive itself. Nothing else. Whats on that drive is easily replaceable from restore, reimage or otherwise a fresh install of whatever spare windows I have on my shelf. The problem then becomes Redmond verifying and authentication of that key. You cannot do that too often on a given box with the same hardware more often than say annually once.
Win 10, 11 and so on so forth has made me obsolete in some ways and turned me intoa Noob and frankly the current computer is considered disposible. If it fried or had problems that C drive is coming out and sent to the metal works to be erased and then whatever is salvaged will be.
Then its off to the store for a complete new computer with win 10 on it and cash money.
The problem with disposible computers is that you accumulate a collection of various machines on the shelf. Some working, some parts, others somewhere in between. Its a never ending quest.
Two years of college reduced my knowledge of computers to one 4 inch thick text book... Scott Mueller's 15th Anniversary "Upgrading and Repairing PC's" Published by QUE of Indianapolis Indiana.
Combined with a visit to Toms Hardware online. And some light reading over new stuff I am too stupid to understand.
=) Be good y'all.
Transferring your TSC sim content or any Steam game to a new SSD as part of your LIBRARY games content location setup, is also easy, just follow Steams Guide.
Formatting a new SSD is not always required and dependent on desired future use, as explained in the link below.
https://cpugpunerds.com/need-format-ssd-when-not-used-os/