Games on exterior USB 2.0 hard drive?

[powerMarkymark]

Not enough space on interior drives for games. Have a 60GB USB 2.0 exterior to load games......will there be problems?

System

Abit KR7A-133 Raid
Amd Athlon XP 2000+
Thermaltake Volcano 7
768 Megs Kingston PC 3200 (400 Mhz.)
Ati Radeon 9600 XT - 128 Megs

TIA

Mark

 

[jpeyton]

There shouldn't be any technical issues. Performance-wise, there may be some slowdown because you're trafficking data over USB during gameplay. That could eat up CPU cycles.

 

[nortexoid]

it'll eat up cycles and it won't transfer data across the bus as quickly....it might take a little longer loading the game or when the game demands info off the hdd, which isn't too often during gameplay (level changes/transitions, etc.)

it should be ok - try it out.

 

[SickBeast]

I don't know much about USB 2.0 hard drives aside from my iPod, but it's firewire. I get 10mb/sec typically on it, which is about 1/3 the speed of a decend hard drive IIRC. I would suggest against putting your games on the USB drive; can't you put your MP3 collection on it instead? Or your documents? Just about anything other than games and vital applications would be a much better idea for an external hard drive IMO.