I have a 2018 MacBook Pro (USB-A only) that my kids are allowed to geek out on. I've created a PC partition on the drive via Bootcamp so they can install some games that are PC-only and/or to get around laggy performance issues with certain games on the Mac side. At the moment, they are dying to get NBA 2K, but this won't fit on the partition by a long shot— the install size is much bigger than the file size I've allocated for the PC partition.
I'm considering getting a 1GB Samsung T7 Portable SSD to increase capacity on the PC side. So, I would install NBA 2K on the external PC-formatted drive. Is it reasonable to expect games to perform well when they are being read off an external SSD, connected via a USB C to USB A adaptor, all the while running on Bootcamp? Can a Mac running Bootcamp even read from a PC-formatted external drive? I'd be grateful for some guesses or perspective on these questions before I invest the time and money to set it up. Thanks.
I'm considering getting a 1GB Samsung T7 Portable SSD to increase capacity on the PC side. So, I would install NBA 2K on the external PC-formatted drive. Is it reasonable to expect games to perform well when they are being read off an external SSD, connected via a USB C to USB A adaptor, all the while running on Bootcamp? Can a Mac running Bootcamp even read from a PC-formatted external drive? I'd be grateful for some guesses or perspective on these questions before I invest the time and money to set it up. Thanks.