Downloading PC game onto an SD card

[TheBALDpuma]

I've just bought battlefield 1 for my PC after deliberating whether it would run on my modest laptop. Having checked out it will I paid for it and went to download and it wants 80GB of space! Which my SSD doesn't have, and I cannot create.

If I buy the best 128GB SD card I can get, will I be able to download to that, and then will it run okay?

[judas]

In short, no. SD cards just don't have the bandwidth needed to run modern games.

[mmm-five]

I'd buy a 500gb external SSD for £100 instead... something like this.

[MattyB_]

Depends on the speed of the SD card and what your laptop supports, I think you can get 250Mb/s cards now, but they're not cheap, plus its over half as slow as a standard SSD "on paper" - however that's not the whole picture. I'm not going to pretend to understand the tech, but there are various other factors in play which makes SSD's significantly faster for sustained read/write.

As mentioned, an external SSD might be better. It won't be as fast as internal, but faster than SD assuming USB3.0

Does your device have "eSATA" by any chance?

[TheBALDpuma]

MattyB_ said:

Depends on the speed of the SD card and what your laptop supports, I think you can get 250Mb/s cards now, but they're not cheap, plus its over half as slow as a standard SSD "on paper" - however that's not the whole picture. I'm not going to pretend to understand the tech, but there are various other factors in play which makes SSD's significantly faster for sustained read/write.

As mentioned, an external SSD might be better. It won't be as fast as internal, but faster than SD assuming USB3.0

Does your device have "eSATA" by any chance?

I don't know what eSATA is? So I'm assuming I don't have it