If there is no ssd, is it an analogue to a usb flash drive?

[Cosmo]

System requirements game are SSD only. Is USB flash an SSD?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

No. That is not an analog.

[Cosmo]

If a game requires an SSD and does not support HDD, can I install such a game on a USB-FLASH?

[Cosmo]

Technically it's analogous. I need the opinion of a person who experimented like this.

[blunus]

Any game can run on a flash drive, but you will encounter longer loading times and lagging much than a HDD.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Wait until it unmounts itself or the game appears uninstalled.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by CS 24:

System requirements are SSD only. Is USB flash an SSD?

No, it is not.

[Satoru]

SSD are solid state drives.

Flash drives, while having flash memory, are much much slower. They also do not have as many write cycles as normal drives do as they aren't really intended for high write situations. Also their controllers tend to be pretty bad as well.

[MancSoulja]

Just because both SSDs and USB drives use flash memory, it doesn't make them comparable.

Even a SATA SSD is tens of times faster than the fastest USB drive.

[Haruspex]

A game will require an SSD specifically for the extra speed it provides. A USB drive won't be able to provide that extra needed speed. Also there can be weird issues with installing games on external drives.

[Ettanin]

USB doesn't satisfy the speeds M.2 NVMe has

[nullable]

Originally posted by CS 24:

If a game requires an SSD and does not support HDD, can I install such a game on a USB-FLASH?

A flash drive is not a cheap/small SSD.

I agree with hotsauce, it's not analogous unless you think a stick figure drawing is analogous to the Mona Lisa. Even if you want to quibble on terminology, a flash drive is not a fast/high performance disk. You'd be better off using a decent HDD if you had no choice for a number of reasons.

Also what game does not support a HDD? I mean I know they're slow (and I haven't bought one or used one in over a decade) a SSD may be recommended for a number of reasons, but chances are the game may still run fine on an HDD.

If a SSD is really necessary, then you need a SSD, instead of trying to find some clever workaround. And the only thing sillier than trying to use a flash drive as a substitute for a SSD would be trying to set up a usb flash drive RAID0 array to try and improve the performance. (obviously a joke)

Originally posted by Ettanin:

USB doesn't satisfy the speeds M.2 NVMe has

Or even a decent SATA SSD.