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Dec 26th, 2007 at 2:01pm

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Will installing a game on an USB hard drive rather than internal one affect it's performance?  The internal drive isn't very big and is nearly full, and I am wondering if I should just use the USB drive for storage and not games that need a lot of system resources.
 
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Reply #1 - Dec 26th, 2007 at 3:20pm
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I have little experience with USB drives but I think the data transfer is a little slower?

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Reply #2 - Dec 26th, 2007 at 4:16pm

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A USB drive will be considerably slower than an HD. The transfer rate is err... naff for playing games. That said I couldn't live without my pen drives (thank goodness for the end of floppies) Cool
 
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