External Hard disk speeds compared to internal

There is no way that an external drive will be as fast as internals. Firewire is faster than USB2.0. Better put your data on the external and installing your game on the internal.

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

Firewire external IS faster than your laptop drive any day, any time, any place, and in any way. You WILL see it for yourself when you WILL run game from laptop drive and then do the same from Firewire.

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Yes, this time I can agree! A fast drive should keep the Firewire's 50MB/s bandwidth filled most of the time. While that's a limitting factor, it's not nearly as bad as the fact many 5400RPM hard drives have difficulting maintaining 33MB/s, even if they're rated "ATA100"!

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