External SSD Question?

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MarcRJB

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I am going to buy and external SSD and I was wondering what else I will need minus the SSD itself and if I use it externally will the performance be any different than if I used it internally?
 
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Phillip Corcoran
You'll need to buy an external hard drive enclosure for it which plugs in to a USB port.

Performance will be slower than if it was fitted internally on account of USB data transfer being slower than SATA, unless you have USB 3.0 ports and use a USB 3.0 enclosure. USB 3.0 is not far behind SATA III (theoretically at least).
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You'll need to buy an external hard drive enclosure for it which plugs in to a USB port.

Performance will be slower than if it was fitted internally on account of USB data transfer being slower than SATA, unless you have USB 3.0 ports and use a USB 3.0 enclosure. USB 3.0 is not far behind SATA III (theoretically at least).
 
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