Installing Games on my external harddrive

SLLAB02 · 04-16-2007, 01:58 AM

Is it a bad idea? (quake 4, doom 3)

ADE · 04-16-2007, 02:08 AM

Well, as long as you don't take files from there and put it on, oh say, your friends hard drive on another computer. Otherwise, its your hard drive, your files, and it'd be just like people sharing a disk with and X box game.

leet6thgrader · 04-16-2007, 03:00 AM

I'm pretty sure he's not asking about the legal issues concerning it, more like if he would suffer from any performance decreases / shortening hard drive life etc.

SLLAB02 · 04-16-2007, 10:34 PM

Is it bad for my comp or my harddrive's health?

**oscaryu1** · 04-16-2007, 10:39 PM

dunno about the health thing, but yes it does decrease the performance. it depends how fast your HDD can transfer info to the USB port to the CPU... and if you got USB 1.1 you're dead, there not that slow but slow... Firewire is better than USB too

shawn_selig29 · 04-21-2007, 09:55 PM

yes some external drives are slower then interneal...check with what speed transfers are..

04-16-2007, 01:58 AM	#1 (permalink)
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04-16-2007, 10:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
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04-16-2007, 10:39 PM	#5 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,154	dunno about the health thing, but yes it does decrease the performance. it depends how fast your HDD can transfer info to the USB port to the CPU... and if you got USB 1.1 you're dead, there not that slow but slow... Firewire is better than USB too __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

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04-16-2007, 02:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
ADE banned Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 15 Posts: 3,372	Well, as long as you don't take files from there and put it on, oh say, your friends hard drive on another computer. Otherwise, its your hard drive, your files, and it'd be just like people sharing a disk with and X box game.

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leet6thgrader banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 290	I'm pretty sure he's not asking about the legal issues concerning it, more like if he would suffer from any performance decreases / shortening hard drive life etc.

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shawn_selig29 Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 173	yes some external drives are slower then interneal...check with what speed transfers are..