Tom’s Hardware has been running some tests to challenge the common assumption that SSD hard drives use power more ... effects on the battery life of a laptop. See the Tom’s Hardware article ...
Maybe your gaming laptop doesn’t have enough storage ... The very minimum you should use if storing games on an external drive is a SATA SSD, so don’t run a game from your external hard ...
I have removed the 15.36TB Teamgroup QX SSD as it has been retired. SATA drives in general are now considered obsolete having been superseded by NVMe models for laptops. They all retail for $800 ...