ADATA XPG SE900G External SSD Review | MMORPG.com

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• chilltime99 Member UncommonPosts: 57

  March 2021

  Will running games directly from this external ssd cause any issues down the road, like reducing the lifespan of the drive or corrupting the data stored on it?
  
  I imagine it will get pretty hot, and prolonged use may cause some degradation problems with no way to effectively dissipate heat.
• Vrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,989

  March 2021 edited March 2021

  chilltime99 said:

  Will running games directly from this external ssd cause any issues down the road, like reducing the lifespan of the drive or corrupting the data stored on it?
  
  I imagine it will get pretty hot, and prolonged use may cause some degradation problems with no way to effectively dissipate heat.

  It's unlikely that there would be more problems than with any other SSD:
  
  The heat used and power generated by SSDs is so small it usually doesn't matter anything as long as you don't place it next to some other hot device or cover it, and even then you'd likely have to be actively trying before you managed to create a situation where an external SSD would overheat.
  
  All SSDs have limited durability and using it might reduce its lifespan somewhat. But in normal use the drive is much more likely to break due to old age than due to how much you're using it. Some servers that see 24/7 use are special cases.
  
  Making the SSD external instead of internal does not cause any extra problems for reliability, durability or cause any corruption. As long as no-one causes corruption by yanking out the cable when the SSD is mid-use, an external SSD is about as reliable as any other SSD.