2TB 7200 RPM drives seem to start at about $75 these days, as compared to $100+ for the Game Drive for Xbox. Or…you could just buy an internal hard drive. Or keep it external, if you want a bit of a laugh every time you look down at your PC. You could probably even crack the enclosure and hook the drive up internally if you felt like it.

Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click ‘Select. Open the ‘Choose location for install’ dropdown, and select your external drive. Purchase the game if you haven’t already. I could see using this drive as supplemental game storage for an SSD-equipped laptop, now that you can set Steam to install to multiple directories. Connect the external drive to your system. That means with the Game Drive you’ll experience slower load times and potentially worse performance for any game that streams assets from the drive a lot instead of RAM-but not unmanageable. A bit slower than the 198.2/194.3 MB/s I clocked on my internal 2TB 7,200 RPM drive. It’s honestly not a bad drive, provided you’re still using hard drives anyway and haven’t switched entirely to SSDs for gaming. Some notable PC exclusives now residing on the Game Drive for Xbox: Age of Empires II, Pillars of Eternity, Dota 2, Europa Universalis IV, The Whispered World, and more.

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