external vs internal SSD drive

[ek1 2]

Hi,

I bought a Samsung 1 TB external SSD. What I'd like to know is, since my computer won't take anything bigger than a 500GB internal SSD, what would the degradation of speed be over a USB cable?

                    Thanks, Ed Kammerman

[stans 631]

It can be significant, but why won't your computer accept anything larger than a 500 GB SSD?

[SierraHotel 917]

14 hours ago, ek1 said:

my computer won't take anything bigger than a 500GB internal SSD

Are you still on DOS?😜

[ek1 2]

No actually it's Dell XPS 8900 oh, I believe the build date was some time in 2017. That's why it won't take anything larger than 500 gig

[ek1 2]

On 10/4/2020 at 6:55 AM, SierraHotel said:

Are you still on DOS?😜

Thanks for sharing

[SierraHotel 917]

4 hours ago, ek1 said:

Thanks for sharing

I'll also share this, it appears that many people have purchased and successfully instaled 1TB SSD's into the PC that you have. Apparently someone even installed an M2 drive. You might need to update the bios. the idea of a PC built in 2017 not being able to use a 1T SSD is just ludacris.

[ryanbatc 11,613]

I thought that was an old Windows thing.  Any recent PC should support a 1TB drive