Optimal Performance With External Drive

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Hey all,

I sadly don’t have enough space on my macos computer to work on an unreal project. I basically just have enough for the engine itself.

I can imagine 2 different options:

I could run the engine on an external drive and store all files on an external drive, or

I could run the engine on my internal SSD but store the projects and all of their assets on the external drive.

What would likely yield best performance? (I’m using a Samsung T7 shield which reportedly gets around 700 MB per second read speed.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

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I’d try engine on system drive, and project on external.

Everything you’re working on will get loaded into memory anyway…