So I have MSFS installed on a dedicated 1TB internal ssd drive. And after purchasing the PMDG 737 airliners recently, I finally ran out of disk space installing them. Since it’s installed on a Lenovo Legion 7 gaming laptop, upgrading the storage isn’t a simple job since Lenovo didn’t manufacture the laptop to be easily consumer upgradable. So the easiest option is to use external storage. My laptop has USB 3.2 gen 1 and 2 ports. But is this enough? Would using an external ssd effect the sims performance?
Also could the installation be spread across multiple drives?
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I used to fly like that before i got my current setup. didnt notice anything performance wise that accounted to the external SSD. If you use a USB 3.2 gen2 shouldnt be a problem at all.
As to your quastion about splitting: If you use an addon manager like this one you can put your mods on another drive and let the program create symlinks and it would work!
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Note that if you want the 3.2 gen 2 10GB performance you need a gen 2 external device and a gen2 cable.
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I use a 1TB NVME SSD externally for the program and an ordinary hard disk for the scenery and community directory. This leaves my Windows drive (C:) free.
In use, there’s no slowdown, crashes or other anomalies. The external SSD is USB 3.1 and plenty fast enough.
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