Im planning on buying an external hard disk(Seagate expansion 1TB,to be precise).I want to use it for gaming(More so for its portability).Using a USB 3.0 connection,is that going to affect my fps?And how good is the hard disk?I've heard contrasting reviews.Thanks in advance.
can i use an external hard disk instead of an internal for games
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not sure what you mean by portability.... even when you install a game to a different drive inside the computer it still writes information to the windows c drive.
Say your wanting to install the game to the external disc so you can move it between your desktop and laptop. you will need to install the game on both computers. That would mean you would have to split the 1tb drive into 2 500gb drives and label them one for desktop and one for laptop.
USB 3.0 does about 640 MBps with a 7200rpm hard drive, make sure the external drive is 7200rpm, some companies will drop down to 5400rpm drives to save on power consumption for the usb.
Say your wanting to install the game to the external disc so you can move it between your desktop and laptop. you will need to install the game on both computers. That would mean you would have to split the 1tb drive into 2 500gb drives and label them one for desktop and one for laptop.
USB 3.0 does about 640 MBps with a 7200rpm hard drive, make sure the external drive is 7200rpm, some companies will drop down to 5400rpm drives to save on power consumption for the usb.
Basically, for the vast majority of modern applications, when they are installed they write items to your Registry, that basically tell Windows how to access them, etc. Some simple applications don't require this (so you might be able to run some simple flash games, etc) but anything complex is likely to require those registry keys written to Windows. Any computer you bring the drive to will not have those keys installed.
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