External Hard Drive for Gaming?

[Itronix]

Hello. I have a Gateway MT3707 with a Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6ghz and one gig of ram. It only has a x200m 64mb card, but it can still play the older games that I like. It has 94 or so gb of space left, and there are around 25gb of games that I'd like to play on it. I don't want all that on it, so would an external work? How fast should the external's rpms be? Thanks everyone!

 

[The_Other_One]

An external hard drive would work just fine. Load times would be slower, but that should be about it.

As for speeds, of course the faster the better. However, most external drives are limited to ATA33 speeds(IE 33MB/s) so in the end, speed really doesn't matter to much.

Have you considered simply getting another internal drive? Or perhaps eSATA(assuming you meant USB above) eSATA would give you internal drive speeds, but you'll need the external connections and a case made for eSATA.

 

[Itronix]

Hello, otherone. Thanks for your help. I thought about putting a different one in, but I think I'll wait until I'm a little more experienced with computer hardware. My parents bought this computer for me (I am very appreciative) and they'd be pissed if I screwed it up! I would be too, as this thing helps me type small reports that I forgot to do at home the day that they are do at school ! I can transfer the report over by zip drive to the teacher's computer.