Your external SSD drive performance is really going to depend upon what kind of USB interface you have.

If you only have USB2, then your 200-550 MB/sec (depending on model) drive is limited to a USB2 throughput of 35MB/sec. In which case, I would just use the external drive that PGMusic sent you. Hard drives will have about a 50-120MB/sec throughput, so even with that, the USB2 is your limiting factor.

If you have USB3, it should theoretically be able to keep up with the drive. First generation USB3 has about a 400MB/sec throughput; the latest generation USB3 drives can achieve speeds of 1000 or even 2000 MB/sec.

NOTE: I'm using Megabytes per second here, but be careful reading the specs as you'll often see Megabits per second (which is different by a factor of 8 with some overhead).


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