Is running PC SOLELY off of external HD viable with eSata or USB 3.0 viable?

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nickmoNW

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EDIT: Sorry for the poorly worded topic.


Basically, I'm quite dismayed by the skyrocketing hard drive prices and would like to know that if getting a much cheaper external drive would suffice.

First off, would widows 7 be able to be installed on it? And if so, how would its speed compare to an internal drive if I used eSATA with the external? Also, how would the speeds for gaming (Crysis, Battlefield 3, Metro 2033, etc...) fare?

I have an intel i5-2500k on a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...k Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI S motherboard. Just in case this makes any difference.

Thank you for any feedback; I'm quite the computer hardware noob, so this is very much appreciated.
 
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nickmoNW said:
EDIT: Sorry for the poorly worded topic.


Basically, I'm quite dismayed by the skyrocketing hard drive prices and would like to know that if getting a much cheaper external drive would suffice.

First off, would widows 7 be able to be installed on it? And if so, how would its speed compare to an internal drive if I used eSATA with the external? Also, how would the speeds for gaming (Crysis, Battlefield 3, Metro 2033, etc...) fare?

I have an intel i5-2500k on a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...k Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI S motherboard. Just in case this makes any difference.

Thank you for any feedback; I'm quite the computer hardware noob, so this is very much appreciated.
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Yes it can as long as your BIOS supports booting off of a USB drive. USB has overhead though so would need to be at least USB 3.0 for running those games on high settings/high load. But as I can see it using USB 3.0 shouldn't be too much of a problem. Anything lower than 3.0.. I wouldn't recommend.
 
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