External Solid State Drives

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In some instances, you may see improved load times - but only if the external hard drive is better performing. This would be if you have either a higher RPM drive, hybrid drive or solid state drive. No real disadvantage to using external. All the items are
moved vis the USB bus.

Im feeling the same as Lofty, although i do have external drives laying around that i can use if needed. Think i've got a solid state one somewhere

Got to correct one thing, your use of the term Solid State. It is a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) that is not removable. Not a Solid State Hard Drive. There are Solid State Drives (SSD). That are meant as alternative to Hard Drives. They are much more expensive
and much faster (I have one in my laptop, love it). Solid State doesn't mean removable, it means it is a type of integrated circuit. Like vacuum tube amplifiers versus solid state ones for audio/music for example.

The USB 3.0 is capable of transferring data at up to 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s), which is more than ten times as fast as the 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s) high speed of USB 2.0. Transcend 1 TB USB 3.0 External Solid State Drive is marketed to having read and write speeds
of up to 410MB/s and 380MB/s respectively. Sound Transcend 1 TB USB 3.0 External Solid State Drive read and write speed is still below of USB 3.0 max capability.