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Shattered Skies · 01-07-2007, 07:36 PM

I just bought a Maxtor 3200 USB external harddrive yesterday. The 30 gigs on my laptop became to annoying trying to manage with my large amount of games that I would like to play. I was wondering what disadvantages there would be from playing games off this harddrive rather then the harddrive on my laptop? Im not a hardware guy personally so leave the "stupid question, isnt it obvious" type things to a bare minimum please

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The harddrive I bought:
http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/st...&cmArea=SEARCH

Jabor_ · 01-07-2007, 07:44 PM

The connection from the external HD to the laptop isn't as fast as the internal drives connection, but unless you regularly do full (no-cd required) installs, you won't really notice much of a difference. Loading will be a fair bit slower, but other than that it'll all be good.

Shattered Skies · 01-07-2007, 07:46 PM

Sweet, thanks.

01-07-2007, 07:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Shattered Skies 500+ Posts???? Join Date: May 2006 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 512 Reputation: 19	External Harddrive I just bought a Maxtor 3200 USB external harddrive yesterday. The 30 gigs on my laptop became to annoying trying to manage with my large amount of games that I would like to play. I was wondering what disadvantages there would be from playing games off this harddrive rather then the harddrive on my laptop? Im not a hardware guy personally so leave the "stupid question, isnt it obvious" type things to a bare minimum please . The harddrive I bought: http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/st...&cmArea=SEARCH

01-07-2007, 07:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jabor_ 500+ Posts???? Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: A disused server somewhere on the great wide network Posts: 518 Reputation: 10	The connection from the external HD to the laptop isn't as fast as the internal drives connection, but unless you regularly do full (no-cd required) installs, you won't really notice much of a difference. Loading will be a fair bit slower, but other than that it'll all be good. __________________

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01-07-2007, 07:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
Shattered Skies 500+ Posts???? Join Date: May 2006 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 512 Reputation: 19	Sweet, thanks.