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Using Thunderbolt III

Aug 11, 2018 8:46AM PDT

I bought an Asus N580VD laptop for gaming. It came with one USB type C (Thunderbolt) port. I also bought a Glyph Atom RAID, 2TB SSD external drive to be used as a gaming drive. The laptop came with a 256GB C: drive and a 2TB HDD D: drive. My question is to take full advantage of the speed of the Glyph external drive do I need to install any drivers or do anything in Device or Computer Manager to take advantage of my external drive? thanks, Blair...

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Re: gaming drive
Aug 11, 2018 8:58AM PDT

- What is a "gaming drive"?
- No need to do anything special to use an external drive
- Better check if it's really faster than your internal drive. Please tell about the benchmark you do and the results. It would be interesting to read .
- And please realize that external disks need even more to be backed up than internal drivers. So for backup that's an extra 4TB drive is both D: and the external are full and you want to keep one copy. If the total space to backup is less than 2 TB, and you want 2 backup copies, it's 2 extra drives of 2 TB.

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Aug 11, 2018 11:57AM PDT

Hello Kees_B, it's a drive devoted just for games. Currently I have almost 90 GB of space used. Since My SSD in my laptop is only 256GB to begin with it's more of an issue with capacity. I stated above its a gaming machine, really its dual purpose. I also edit videos and have two applications on my SSD to edit video. They take up some real estate on my SSD too. My D: is about 65% filled with videos and also its only a 5,400 RPM HDD. So my other option is to transfer what I have on my C: drive to a 1 or 2TB internal SSD and install it in my Asus (the BIOS will recognize the 2TB). In as far as speed according to manufactures claims are for the internal Samsung 970 EVO 2TB - NVMe PCIe M.2, read speeds are faster @ speeds up to 3,500MB/s! So that's pretty hard to beat. The external SSD on the other hand has read speeds of with speeds of up to 800MB/s. The only reason I hesitate to install the new internal drive is I'll void the warranty, on a laptop I bought on the 6th of last month. That's the only thing holding me back. I would rather install the drive & while I'm in there upgrade the RAM from 16GB to 32GB. Also from what you're telling me I would be better off to then use the external drive to backup files. I do have a WD Elements 4TB HDD's to backup my videos so I understand the importance of safeguarding my work. Anyway thanks for the reply and the information. I may just take the chance and go with the 2TB internal SSD. Thanks for the reply, Blair...