09-08-2019, 04:42 AM
Please, someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you should be fine accessing those Word, Pages, Excel and Numbers documents from the external drive. Your demands are low, and your saves are intermittent. Your drive is not being used all day long, and it is not being over-taxed.
It is your photo-editing and PS and LR writes that are more taxing to your drive, and the external spinny drive is a possible bottleneck. Storing your files externally is fine, but your editing will go much smoother if done on the SSD. Think of your internal SSD as your production drive and your external drive as you storage/archive drive.
It is your photo-editing and PS and LR writes that are more taxing to your drive, and the external spinny drive is a possible bottleneck. Storing your files externally is fine, but your editing will go much smoother if done on the SSD. Think of your internal SSD as your production drive and your external drive as you storage/archive drive.