External SSD / FLash Drive

[L-Dog]

Hey guys

Looking to back up my steam library on an External SSD or Flash Drive. Will you be able to play CSS or Dota 2 online from the flash drive ? Did some research and found some mixed results. Any advise as the deal below looks good

Takealot

www.takealot.com

 

[iamgigglz]

First question is why back up your steam library? And then why play from the backup?

I guess you’re just wanting to clear up some space? If that’s the case then I’d rather spend the money on a 120GB SSD. Even a SATA drive’s performance will smoke that flash drive in loading games.

 

[goldfritter]

For what it is worth I have found that if you buy a 2.5" SSD and put it into a USB3.0 external enclosure that supports UASP, it performs at around 80 - 85% of the performance if it were connected via SATA. So it's almost as good as using the SSD internally.

The enclosure I used is this one: takealot.com

And I used a Crucial MX500 SSD.

I agree with @iamgigglz that the flash drive you linked is likely to be much slower than an SSD, possibly even slower than an HDD. I don't think you could run games off that. But I don't have any personal experience with such flash drives so I could be wrong.

 

[L-Dog]

Thanks basically travel for work and sometimes stay overnight with nothing to do. Have an mid range laptop so can play CSS and Dota 2 but can't store it on the work pc.

 

[L-Dog]

Would one of these guys work ?

Takealot

www.takealot.com

 

[Yasin]

Sorry for necro but I have some very recent experience with this. I have a coupla Lego games installed on a flash drive and my daughters play fine via USB 2.0 port on their Sandy Bridge PC. Windows 10 installed on SSD, graphics is HD5770 on a 720p monitor, and game video settings are all set to medium. I know it doesn't answer your Steam backup and Dota2/CSS specific questions but at least it speaks to gaming performance via USB in general.