External SSD advice

abdullah_mag

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I have an alienware m17x r4, it has an eSATA port, and i was considering buying an external SSD to put my games on and play them directly from it, but i've never used an external drive as if it was an internal one, so i don't know if that'll work or not.

I need your advice about this, will an SSD work with an eSATA port, and will i be able to use it to install play games from it??, also, is there sort of a limit to how big in terms of capacity for external SSDs that are to be used in such fashion?
 

abdullah_mag

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i want something that has fast read speeds because some games have texture streaming, in addition, my hard drives already provide me with 1.6gb of free space.

the problem is they're deteriorating so their read/write speeds are quite not good, so i get lots of freezes and such.